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skills generations novelists
Charles Stross We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.
skills perception taoism
Alan Watts But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.
skills age lucky
Alan Blinder And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.
skills mind soil
Edward Gibbon In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .
skills energy kind
David Hockney Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
skills ideas judgement
Audrey Meadows Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.
skills differences survival
Audre Lorde Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
skills circles differences
Audre Lorde Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
ideas house stories
Charles Dickens She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
ideas rocks tree
Charles Soule Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.
ideas yellow people
Charles Stross The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.
ideas people want
Charles Stanley People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.
ideas good-work ifs
Charles Spurgeon Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
ideas world incredibles
Alan Watts The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
ideas gentleman plausible
Alan Watts The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.
ideas stink masters
Alan Watts To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
ideas matter certain
Alan Watts In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
judgement amplification youth
Alan Jay Lerner Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
judgement brain substitutes
Dean Acheson Brains are no substitute for judgement.
judgement feelings bitter
Charlotte Bronte Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
judgement too-much directors
Charlotte Gainsbourg You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
judgement mind world
Byron Katie A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.
judgement morality action
Ayn Rand ...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.
judgement littles sometimes
Brian Jacques A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement gets clouded. —Abbot Saxtus
judgement anger-and-fear resistance
Bryant H. McGill Let your resistance, judgements, angers and fears inform you.
judgement fool conviction
Baltasar Gracian Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.