Edwin Hutchins Quotes

Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers.

Edwin Hutchins

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• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Study
  • Create
  • Often

• I think it would help tremendously to have a senator that knows where jobs come from, that knows how to create them, that knows how to bring them back and, importantly, knows what it means to manage billions of dollars' worth of expenses and cut billions of dollars' worth of expenses.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Help
  • Think
  • Create

• If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Create

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that create jobs here in New England. We should also demand newer, cleaner, and more innovative transmission methods.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Energy
  • New
  • Create

• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Create

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Swear

• Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • War
  • Future
  • Humans

• Human beings crave freedom at their core.

  

  John Ensign
  • Humans
  • Core
  • Crave

• The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

  

  John Gardner
  • Humans
  • Belief
  • Values

• I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Humans
  • Fiction

• The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Existence
  • Intellectual
  • Powers

• The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Study
  • Create
  • Convinced

• The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

  

  John Milton
  • Darkness
  • Powers
  • Martyrs

• Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.

  

  William Barclay
  • Soul
  • Waiting
  • Should

• In other words: If an organism is stuck in survival mode, its energies are focused on fighting off unseen enemies, which leaves no room for nurture, care, and love. For us humans, it means that as long as the mind is defending itself against invisible assaults, our closest bonds are threatened, along with our ability to imagine, plan, play, learn, and pay attention to other people’s needs.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Care
  • Humans
  • Survival

• Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

  

  Michael Shermer
  • Stories
  • Humans
  • Storytelling

• Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Risk
  • Establishment
  • Salad

• Now to understand the significance of chastity within us, we have to know that chastity is the foundation of all dharmas. Unless and until you have sense of chastity you cannot have dharma.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Knows
  • Foundation
  • Chastity

• Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers.

  

  Edwin Hutchins
  • Humans
  • Create
  • Powers