Quotes of: Natural-ability Keyword

While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, so agreeable to the natural vanity and curiosity of men; and thereby restored her ultimate secre...

David Hume

The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the advantage of excluding vague questions and useless calculations; besides it is a sure means of forming analys...

Joseph Fourier

[Chunk is running toward the road in the dead of night to find help] Chunk: I'm not all alone in the dark. I like the dark. I love the dark. [He ducks and crawls under a tree branch] Chunk: But I hate nature! I HATE nature!

The Goonies

With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is mor...

Dan Futterman

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the uni...

John Shelby Spong

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't just respond to things as we see them or feel them or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they r...

Paul Bloom

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and ...

Frederick William Faber

Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature. Rose Sayer: Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

The African Queen

Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn’t want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human na...

Ann Brashares

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' ins...

Alan W. Watts

There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now this is a law that has evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs and when it does it becomes subject to this ...

Tom Shadyac

In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be- we can achieve that kind of physical and spi...

Love

I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness or depravity. It is our present principled and elaborately rationalized rape and plunder of the natur...

Wendell Berry

She hadn’t known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.

Charlotte's Chance

Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies to see their possibilities.

Church Planting Landmines

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

The Circle

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

Complete Training: From Recruitment to Retirement

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.

The Coming and Going of Strangers

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.

The Dark Divine