Quotes of: Shape Keyword

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas abou...

Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself

Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike t...

Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leaders

Existing political philosophies all developed before evolutionary game theory, so they do not take equilibrium selection into account. Socialism pretends that individuals are not selfish sexual competitors, so it ignores equilibria altogether. Conser...

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

To ensure that we are leading with our feet firmly planted on the soil of what is, we must live by the seven commandments of current reality: Thou shalt not pretend. Though shalt not turn a blind eye. Thou shalt not exaggerate. Thou shalt not shoot t...

Next Generation Leader: 5 Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future

A local phrase book, entitled , has the following handy expressions. In the section 'On the Way to the Hotel': 'Let's Mutilate US Imperialism!' In the section 'Word Order': 'Yankees are wolves in human shape—Yankees / in human shape / wolves / are....

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.

The Carnivorous Carnival

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

Communication Power

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Death of a Red Heroine

One thing that shapes our behavior knowingly or unknowingly is fear

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so.

Education by Stone

It says 'Bet you were expecting a heart, shaped like a compass...'" Jack paused and pulled the note off the bow tie. "...And then he drew a frowny face.

Evertrue

They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.

The Fellowship of the Ring

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

The Giver

Some people were born to the shape they would occupy all their lives. ("Wait")

Best New Horror 23

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

The Brides of Rollrock Island

It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

What you think, what you eat, and what you see today, shapes who you will be tomorrow.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Brisingr

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.

Beautiful Winter

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

Anne Fortier

The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

Damian Loeb