"The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice."

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Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.532, Spectra

Brian Herbert

#Skills Quotes #Choices Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.”
“Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than thou in worthiness. Learn humble mindedness beforehand, which the Lord commanded in word and showed forth in deed. Hence, do not expect obedience from others, but be ready for obedience thyself.”
“I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.”
“If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.”
“No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.”

Source : "Ukip's bloomer over women's rights". www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2004.
“How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.”
“I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.”
“I can be a goofball sometimes. I love having a good time and being carefree.”

Source : "New Crush: Lab Rat's Spencer Boldman". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 20, 2011.

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