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The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
Jane Roberts
Knowledge
Channels
Intuitive
Individual
Opened
According
Intensity
Need
Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.
Janine Benyus
Knowledge
Every
Years
Five
Doubling
Biological
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.
Janine di Giovanni
Knowledge
World
Mind
Parents
Young
Disclosure
Feminist
Cease
Up
Expand
Child
Get
Being
Soak
Literature
Full
Reasons
Many
Away
Eager
University
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
Jay Griffiths
Music
Knowledge
Mind
Medicine
Trees
Deforestation
Silencing
Only
Double
Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.
Jay Parini
Work
Knowledge
Together
Thoughtful
Colleges
Haven
Classrooms
Students
Sciences
Occur
Discussions
Tranquility
Arts
Where
Places
Acquire
Work Together
Should
Teachers
I've been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can't imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.
Jay Parini
Me
Knowledge
Our
Books
Thorough
Colleagues
Would
Colleges
Small
Instead
Armed
Disciplines
Been
Years
Mean
Teaching
Full-Time
Chosen
Rifles
Imagine
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge
Age
Our
Enter
Status
Postmodern
Hypothesis
Altered
Known
Cultures
Working
Societies
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge
Wish
Society
Must
Developed
Highly
Most
Contemporary
Contemporary Society
Answer
Question
Discuss
Representation
Preliminary
Apply
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Knowledge
Decision
Society
Machine
Giant
Only
Indispensable
Principal
Accordance
Role
Decide
Decided
Act
Element
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge
Philosopher
Pleasure
Take
His
Heard
Ceases
Being
Desire
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
Jean Piaget
Knowledge
Active
Think
Way
Idea
Another
Another Way
Still
Same
Human
Essentially
Human Knowledge
Express
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget
Knowledge
Construction
Strong
Single
Enough
Logic
Total
Support
Human
Means
Human Knowledge
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Jean Piaget
Knowledge
Words
World
Other
Immediate
Purely
Self
Contact
Practical
Begins
Stopped
Whereas
In Other Words
Utilitarian
Things
External
External World
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
Jean Stafford
Life
Me
Knowledge
My Life
Nothing
Worse
Writer
Than
Being
Holds
I would compare my 'Frankenstein' to Cronenberg's remake of 'The Fly.' The monster in the original Fifties version of 'The Fly' was a crude, anatomical combination of man and insect, whereas Cronenberg's version exploited knowledge of DNA to depict him as a transgenic chimera.
Jed Mercurio
Knowledge
Man
Fly
Monster
Frankenstein
Insect
Would
Cronenberg
Remake
Crude
Combination
Him
Version
Depict
Whereas
Exploited
Fifties
Original
Compare
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.
Jeff Greenfield
Love
Art
Nature
Knowledge
Natural
Joy
World
Evil
Pure
Beauty
Alive
Ourselves
Someone
Splendor
Instant
Part
Disaster
Involuntary
Make
Sheer
Always
Existence
Balm
End
Get
Just
Being
Experiences
Natural Disaster
Bargain
Illness
Injury
The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.
Jeffrey Gitomer
Knowledge
You
Prospect
Stuff
Expects
Just
Customer
Your
Buyer
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
Jeffrey Kluger
Knowledge
Insanity
Criminal
Rarely
Cases
Wrong
Fail
Between
Know
Just
Difference
Which
Succeed
Act
Reasons
Technical
Right
Right And Wrong
A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Good
Knowledge
Treat
Someone
Something
Like
Pink
Orange
Decide
Whether
Should
Technical
Technical Knowledge
Her
Designer
I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.
Jennie Garth
Knowledge
Women
Those
Chat
Share
Likes
Around
Pass
Who
I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.
Jennifer Gilmore
Knowledge
Experience
Sometimes
Negotiate
Both
Between
Still
Author
Roles
Trying
Being
Translate
Really
Working
Publishing
Two
Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies' and countries' competitive ability and foster innovation and growth.
Jens Martin Skibsted
Knowledge
Creative
Communication
Innovation
Design
Promote
Solutions
Ability
Factor
Powerful
Between
Countries
Disciplines
Transform
Stakeholders
Companies
Foster
Growth
Competitive
Major global institutions need to harvest clean tech knowledge wherever it can be found and integrate it into their major export systems.
Jens Martin Skibsted
Knowledge
Harvest
Systems
Clean
Major
Global
Institutions
Integrate
Wherever
Export
Tech
Found
Need
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
Jeremy Taylor
Life
Best
Knowledge
Rather
Divine
Than
Theology
People come to me with their passion about transportation, about education, about health care, about agriculture, the dairy industry, the almond growers. I'm just a kid in a candy store, learning and eating up all this different knowledge.
Jerry McNerney
Education
Health
Me
Knowledge
Learning
People
Passion
Agriculture
Care
Dairy
Kid
Eating
About
Come
Industry
Health Care
Up
Just
Candy
Candy Store
Different
Store
Transportation
The thing that's amazing about working with Chris Landon is that he has such an encyclopedic knowledge of all films in all genres.
Jessica Rothe
Knowledge
Amazing
Films
About
He
Genres
Working
Chris
Thing
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