David Lewis-Williams Quotes

Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and to be directly aware.

David Lewis-Williams

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• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Ability
  • Greatest
  • Mental

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • More
  • Consciousness
  • His

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Ability
  • Aggressive
  • Respected

• Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Body
  • Ability
  • Grow

• With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Find
  • Ability
  • DNA

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Without

• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Lose
  • Consciousness

• What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Person
  • Look
  • Ability

• Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • People
  • Ability
  • Pay

• Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Song

• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  

  Luciano Berio
  • Music
  • Spiritual
  • Consciousness

• When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Help
  • Positive
  • Confidence

• It's just learning the game more. Just trying to approach it in a John Stockton-type of way, to where you don't play so much with your physical ability all the time. You have to think the game out a lot more. That's where I'm a lot better. I know the game a lot more. I see things before they happen a lot.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • World
  • Ability
  • Negative

• Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mean
  • Humble
  • Weak

• No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

  

  Epictetus
  • Power
  • Advantage
  • No Matter What

• I don't have great running technique, but I like to run. I've heard from countless people that the last six miles of the marathon is all mental. But what better city to have this in than New York City where there are millions of people there supporting you?

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and to be directly aware.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Ability
  • Consciousness
  • Involves