Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes

The greatest possession is self-possession.

Ethel Watts Mumford

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Brave

• The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Form
  • Female

• Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Power
  • Powerful

• Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

  

  Van Jones
  • Green

• If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Nature
  • Beauty
  • Finds

• If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Different
  • Internet
  • Overcoming

• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

  

  William James
  • Society
  • Motivational
  • Intelligence

• Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Process
  • Names

• The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.

  

  William Osler
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Strong

• I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Myself
  • Parent
  • Corruption

• I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Proud
  • Never
  • Texas

• Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.

  

  Arian Foster
  • Virtue
  • Patience
  • Keep Doing

• The greatest possession is self-possession.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Possession
  • Self-possession