Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.

We are born to give; even though we are indoctrinated throughout our lives differently this simply is not what science tells us. It does seem that our natural state is to help others so I guess our goal is to find that natural state within ourselves.

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.

We forget that stretch marks, cellulite and some stomach fat is natural. We forget that we are born human and physically can't be perfect. We forget that God doesn't make us out of plastic and silicone. We forget to be flawed.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.

We have the capacity to alter the nature of nature. No, we don't have just the capacity - we are altering the nature of nature, the natural systems that cause the planet to function in our favor.

We have within us enormous reserves of trapped potential. Our natural urges have been so constrained by the accommodations of living that we each have a smoldering volcano just below the surface. To enable this force to erupt in a healthy, open, and positive manner is a momentous act.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn... you can learn, um, a lot of things... a lot of things from the experience... you can learn from a lot of things being smart.

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.

We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

We're really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That's from experience.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget the giver. Then our gaze shifts from what we have been given to what we dont have yet. . . .

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.

What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

When do you feel most authentic? Authenticity feels so natural, so why isn't it easy?