To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is poss...
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.
In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.
As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
