Superhuman Abilities Quotes & Sayings

After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading. — Manju Warrier

Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abilities that led them inevitably toward their greatness. — Carol S. Dweck

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree. — Swami Vivekananda

Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook. — Rudolf Arnheim

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead. — Corrie Ten Boom

Indians are born with an instinct for riding, rowing, hunting, fishing, and swimming. Americans are born with an instinct for fooling around with machines. — William, Saroyan

The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this. — Ulysses S. Grant

Scoundrels [ ... ] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [ ... ] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young. — Osamu Dazai

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. — Frank Church

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. — Ambrose Bierce

When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible. — Camille

I feel like I just walked into a downpour, and all my clothes are heavy with water; like I am heavy and awkward and useless. I don't know if he means that no one can help him, or if I, specifically can't help him, but I would not be okay with eitehr interpretation. I want to help him. I am powerless to do so. — Veronica Roth

I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win. — Jeremy Lin

Sjofn is the Goddess of Love. And love," her eyelids suddenly fluttered dreamily, "love," she breathed then she focused on me with a strange intensity that made me, even me, squirm a little, "love is everything. — Kristen Ashley

There are infinite ways for your mind to torture it's self. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

You wish to hear the origin story?" "Uh, yes." I passed him the bottle. "Very well." He drank, handing it to Jack, starting another round. "A goddess of magic devised a contest to the death for select mortals. She invited deities of other realms to send a representative from their most prestigious house, all youths. Each one bore their god's emblem upon his or her right hand." My heart raced . . . I had been one of those youths. "These players would fight inside Tar Ro, a sacred realm as large as a thousand kingdoms, harvesting their victims' emblems; only the player who'd collected them all would leave Tar Ro alive. Naturally, the gods cheated, gifting their own representative with superhuman abilities, making them more than mortal. Secret abilities. That's why we're called Arcana." "Hail Tar Ro," I murmured. "The High Priestess told me that." "An old-fashioned greeting. She's quite knowledgeable about the games. Very respectful of the old ways. — Kresley Cole

If an AI possessed any one of these skills - social abilities, technological development, economic ability - at a superhuman level, it is quite likely that it would quickly come to dominate our world in one way or another. And as we've seen, if it ever developed these abilities to the human level, then it would likely soon develop them to a superhuman level. So we can assume that if even one of these skills gets programmed into a computer, then our world will come to be dominated by AIs or AI-empowered humans. — Stuart Armstrong

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints. — Bernard Tschumi

Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse. — Deepa Kumar