Enabling Quotes - Page 8

• Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Eye, Illness, Rebirth

  Margaret Prescott Montague (1917). “Twenty Minutes of Reality: An Experience, with Some Illuminating Letters Concerning it”

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• Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

  S. N. Goenka

  Training, Mind, Firsts

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• Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Sex, Technology, Men

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• Thus, the enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement helps us to see and to do and to become good in ways that we could never recognize or accomplish with our limited moral capacity. I testify and witness that the enabling power of the Savior's Atonement is real. Without that strengthening power of the Atonement, I could not stand before you this morning.

  David A. Bednar

  Morning, Real, Way

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• Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and big hair is artifice, fake, and a distraction. But I knew even as a teenager that my femininity was more than just adornments; they were extensions of me, enabling me to express myself and my identity. My body, my clothes, and my makeup are on purpose, just as I am on purpose.

  Janet Mock

  Inspiring, Teenager, Makeup

  Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Imagination, Soldier

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Years, Acting

  "Andy Serkis plays dual role in "Hobbit" - Gollum and director". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Making disciples by going, baptizing, and teaching people the Word of Christ and then enabling them to do the same thing in other people’s lives—this is the plan God has for each of us to impact nations for the glory of Christ

  David Platt

  Teaching, Impact, People

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• Compassion doesn't have to be weak or enabling; it can also be quite bold.

  George Saunders

  Compassion, Weak

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Fun, Lesson Learned

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.

  F.B. Meyer

  Son, Men, Hands

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• When you are in the mundane from what is deeper than your self, you realize the mundane to be more than your self, and your self opens. It opens in its structuring and in its form, enabling you as the form of your self to move in the deeper levels of the mundane

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Self, Levels

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• Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Distance, Writing

  Abraham Lincoln's address on discoveries and inventions at Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 18, 1935.

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• there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.

  Mark Nepo

  Song, Play, Choices

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• In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Jobs, Character, Suspense

  "Jhumpa Lahiri Was Abandoned by Her Editor" by Mark Follman, March 21, 2012.

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• New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

  Karen Bass

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

  Jerry Bridges

  Temptation, Grace, Steps

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• And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, People, Pirate

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Knowledge, Opportunity

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• Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

  Karen Armstrong

  Technology, World, Scope

  Karen Armstrong (2004). “A Short History Of Myth”, p.3, Canongate Books

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• For you to access your own innermost as awareness is for you to surrender form after form after form, enabling you as awareness to recede to what you first are, for you to be meaning.

  John de Ruiter

  Firsts, Surrender, Awareness

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• I participated with great honor in becoming one of the first to land on the moon, and now I am devoting and have devoted many years of my life to enabling Americans to lead international nations to permanence on the planet Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Becoming One, Years

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Technology, Phones, Cells

  "Banking on Savings for the Poor" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2010.

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• Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.

  John Stuart Mill

  Atheism, Development, Belief

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. Being three Essays on Religion. With introductory notice by Helen Taylor”, p.100

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• Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Struggle, Fall, Sacrifice

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