People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by their actions, vicarious experience of the effects produced by somebody else's actions, judgments voiced by others, and derivation of further knowledge from what they already know by using rules of inference
People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties
I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.
We finally know where the red line for climate really is. After the rapid melt of arctic ice in the summer of 2007, our best scientists, led by NASA's Jim Hansen, went back to work and produced a series of papers showing that with more than 350 ppm (parts per million) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we couldn't have a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted. "
I don't look to my situation to determine what choices I make. I've developed a good sense of values and beliefs. That's my reality. No matter where I am, God is still good. No matter where I am, nothing is impossible. It's those sort of principles that really anchor me.
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.
Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to hisher people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.
To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell just what was needed, and not do any more or any less, and maybe not even be aware of what you had done, except it would be a helpful thing because of how fully present you were. Well, as Aerosmith once famously said: Dream on.
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U. S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.
Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.
I've pushed myself to push toward things that disturb me. I've developed a habit of recording these things because these things often disappear.
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed
I'm of the generation of kids where the G. I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.