Sentences with phrase «great human capacity»

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I've heard it said that the thing that separates humans from the other great apes (beyond opposable thumbs and better haircuts) is our capacity to delay near - term gratification in pursuit of a superior downstream payoff.

Look, no human being has anywhere near the capacity to make the great decisions, as great collective decision - making.

This bond may very often make us deeply happy; indeed, it may have the capacity to bring some of the greatest joys into human life.

While we do not claim that human beings are enslaved by sin, we are aware of the great capacity that humans have for evil as well as for good.

Certainly nobody could deny that when they are presented in this fashion they have the capacity to force all of us to regard human existence, human decisions, and human actions as matters of very great importance.

In fact, some would say that there is no human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.

«155 Peter Hamilton holds the same view, and from it he draws three implications: 156 First, while human occasions possess greater significance due to their capacity for a conscious relationship with God, in some measure all entities contribute everlastingly to the divine life.

Such forms of expression are subject to great variety in the course of history, for they are the product of the fertile human imagination, and their popularity depends upon the prevailing mood of an age, and upon the capacity of their symbolism to communicate with the «ring of truth».

It has brought much good, but it has also given us greater abilities than human moral capacity can easily manage.

One of the great mysteries of the natural world is that out of it has evolved the human species, which has the capacity to think, to ask questions, to look for meaning and to be creative.

The more they are able to sense and to be moved by what Humboldt calls das Menschliche, the greater will be their capacity to comprehend and to interpret human existence, past and present.

The error of liberal humanism is its too great reliance upon the human capacity for transcendence over self - interest.

I agree with you that the human mind has great capacity as we were given certain gifts that allow us to understand the creator which the rest of the animal kingdom does not possess.

The possibility held before us is a new freedom in human relationships and a greater capacity for genuine concern and sensitivity.

But the truth is deeper than this... there's something about us, everything we touch as humans has the capacity to go very, very badly wrong and that's the real concern - if we are so great, why is the world such a mess?»

He began by comparing human capacities to jars to be filled, a metaphor most of the great authors would not have thought very apt.

On St. Thomas's view, freedom is in fact the great organizing principle of the moral life — and since the very possibility of a moral life (the capacity to think and choose) is what distinguishes the human person from the rest of the natural world, freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Whatever their differences, the greatest of modern Italian novelists — Manzoni, Verga, Moravia, Silone, Lampedusa — share a fundamental pessimism about the human capacity to alter social institutions.

To be consonant with the Word of God, philosophy needs first of all to recover its sapiential dimension as a search for... the ultimate framework of the unity of human knowledge and action, leading them to converge towards a final goal and meaning (para. 81)... to verify the human capacity... to come to a knowledge which can reach objective truth (para. 82)... Hence we face a great challenge at the end of this millennium to move from phenomenon to foundation, a step as necessary as it is urgent.

This thing is a blank canvas for a fun dessert, and on its own is a great recipe for a fast and simple dessert that touches on nostalgic elements of a well - adjust human's childhood with the capacity for light - heartedness and humour when it comes to their table.

«As technical and technically driven as GNPC's operations, the corporation is committed to supporting the development of human capacity among Ghanaians to ensure greater participation from citizens and locals in Ghana's oil and gas exploration...

A new study compared children's capacity to imitate behavior with the same capacity of humans» closest living great ape relatives, the bonobos.

This means that chimps have greater limitations on the ways in which their brains can develop and on their capacity to learn new behaviors or skills compared with humans.

Maybe the companies that make scented products will start making greater use of the human capacity and develop cleaners and perfumes with new, more interesting scents,» she says.

The human capacity for imagination is so great that sometimes people can create delayed post-traumatic stress disorder even in the absence of remembered traumas.

«Humans have a great capacity for self - regulation,» says Khalsa, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and research director for Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Massachusetts.

Their contribution to the antioxidant capacity of the human diet is much greater than that of vitamins.

Well, it means trying to push capitalists to address the suffering of the poor and the oppressed, as long as capitalism continues to operate, but we must recognize that we need to move beyond capitalism if we ever hope to bring about genuine equality and a greater unfolding of human powers and capacities.

The main idea, which was progressively born during the workshops, was the fact that, behind the mask, the essence of both the human being and the world is the same, but in most cases it looks like a «Great Anonymous» due to the lack in our capacity to adequately understand the truth.

IF the IDOE collaborates with key stakeholders, including LEAs, institutions of higher education, and educator associations, to refine existing human capital management systems that leverage evaluation and support systems to recruit, prepare, develop, support, advance, reward, and retain great teachers and leaders, THEN increased educator capacity and effectiveness will ensure equitable access to excellent educators and lead to improved student outcomes.50

The bottom line is that we do not want to prevent the school organization from becoming «greater than the sum of its parts... [so that]... the social capital that transforms human capital through collegial activities in schools [might increase] the school's overall instructional capacity and, arguably, its success» (p. 118).

Kittens have the greatest capacity for learning — including adapting to humans — between the ages of 2 weeks and 14 weeks.

What really I assumed was that the game had more nuance and strategy to it than the single - player was able to display, and the infinite capacity of human beings to learn would ensure a greater challenge online.

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.

Climate change is having, or will have, the effect of lowering the carrying capacity, at least for normal human timeframes; so, that means that whatever the overshoot is, it will be greater with greater effects of climate change.

If and when future human evolution produces greater prefrontal capacity we will see a shift in human behavior away from self -, family -, and tribal - centered and selfish, near - term judgment to much more inclusive, caring and sharing behavior.

My talk focused on a big question — can humans take advantage of our growing capacity to observe and understand our relationship with the environment or will our «great acceleration» trajectories continue to zoom until we crash?

Increasingly sophisticated techniques and enhanced computational capacity allow a greater range of events — heatwaves, floods, drought, heat deaths, coral reef bleaching — to be analysed for a human fingerprint with ever greater levels of certainty than Allen's exploratory possibilities.

Computer technology has a far greater capacity to produce bulldust than us mere humans.

Both need to be taken into account, and both should be through wise government: the founders of the US did a splendid job of balancing the necessary regulatory apparatus of governance with the freedoms that bring human nature's great capacities to bear in the most effective way.

Too great an infringement on this capacity is an affront to human dignity.

«Our capacity to generate and collect information is greater than at any time in human history; deriving meaningful insight from that information is the next major transformative activity for business,» says Packal.

There are several factors that can enable AI to help transform the legal industry, from its ability to parse information and process natural language to the fact that machines have greater capacity to process quantity of information without concerns for fatigue and mistakes that come with humans.