Advanced Abilities Quotes & Sayings

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice. — Max De Pree

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation? — John Blacking

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization. — George Carlin

I'm a walking economy. My hairline's in recession,my waist is a victim of inflation, and together they're putting me in a deep depression! — Anonymous

I didn't care how unbeatable this Samwise fuckface thought he was. I'd figure out how to beat him eventually. And then I'd dance on his green corpse. After — Megan Erickson

In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end. — Tim Hunt

Lila Wingo would take the raw material of a daughter and shape her into a poet and a psychotic. — Pat Conroy

I don't want to see no dead body. Willie ain't in there. She put her walkin' shoes on. She gone to see the Lord. — Ruta Sepetys

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities. — Elliott Carter

He pulled me up into the world of advanced literature, where you wrote essays about a line of Dante, where nothing could be made complex enough, where art dealt with the supreme, not in a high-flown sense because it was the modernist canon with which we were engaged, but in the sense of the ungraspable, which was best illustrated by Blanchot's description of Orpheus's gaze, the night of the night, the negation of the negation, which of course was in some way above the trivial and in many ways wretched lives we lived, but what I learned was that also our ludicrously inconsequential lives, in which we could not attain anything of what we wanted, nothing, in which everything was beyond our abilities and power, had a part in this world, and thus also in the supreme, for books existed, you only had to read them, no one but myself could exclude me from them. You just had to reach up. — Karl Ove Knausgard

To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on the blackboard may be inaccessible and uninstructive, if the purpose of the successive steps is incomprehensible, if the reader or listener cannot understand how it was humanly possible to find such an argument ... — George Polya

That's the oppressive thing about happiness, the way everything is out on the table like an open book: — Herman Koch

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art. — Duane Michals