Sentences with phrase «discovered about our capacity»

What was the most memorable thing you discovered about our capacity to improve our memory?

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Sussing out a candidate's capacity for delayed gratification, according to Vernon, is all about discovering, «are you in it for building enterprise value and an eventual exit or are really just a cowboy that wants to get paid a lot and likes saying you work at a start - up because it's sexy?»

But though they aim at knowledge and truth, their capacity really to discover the truth about any matter will depend, as Stout here suggests, in part upon their possession of certain vocabularies, skills, and virtues.

When both are undrugged and quiet, fully present and alert, new potentials are invoked, and we discover more about ourselves, and the sacred — and biological — origins of our capacity to love.

But sometime later, I read an article about two researchers who discovered that mother rats were smarter — specifically in learning and memory capacity — than rats that never had babies.

«Also discovered in the facility include 3 wooden boats containing about 20,000 litres of suspected illegally refined AGO, 350 drums, several GP and metal tanks ranging from 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000 litres storage capacity as well as 7 pumping machines.

Stem cell research holds tremendous promise for medical treatments, but scientists still have much to discover about how stem cells work and their capacity for healing.

Maybe I'll discover something about myself, something about my capacity that I wasn't even aware of, and that's so exciting for a student.»

But all of the stories in the campaign — and, ultimately, the book — are about one central thing — learning, and what it feels like to discover one's purpose, passion, and capacity for greatness.

But all of the stories in this collection are about one central thing — learning, and what it feels like to discover one's purpose, passion, and capacity for greatness.

«It's talking about Cuban resistance but also existentialism,» explained Capote, who discovered through artists like Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, Maurizio Cattelan, and Tom Friedman that art had the capacity to communicate what he was seeing and feeling.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

When we speak of knowledge, we immediately think of the human capacity to learn more about the reality that surrounds him and to discover the laws that govern nature and the universe.