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.
Quotes to Explore
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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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.
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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.
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Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
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Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.
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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.
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
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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.
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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.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
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The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.
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Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.
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The creative processes are so mysterious.
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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.
