Quotes About Shaping

If our lives are the stories we tell ourselves, regret reminds us that we have a dual role. We are both the authors and the actors. We can shape the plot but not fully. We can toss aside the script but not always. We live at the intersection of free will and circumstance.

Automatic pilot (Res/App):A way of being that is driven by a state of mind that is devoid of active reflection and that often involves top-down processing. It is reflected in reactive and enduring patterns of thought and bodily posture and movement, in which the past is shaping present perceptual biases, emotional responses, and behavioral output.

It is unhelpful to pit these interdependent processes against each other in simplistic debates such as experience versus biology, or nature versus nurture. In fact, experience shapes brain structure. Experience is biology.

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

He wanted to change her past, but even as he thought it, he realized it was her very past that had shaped her into a woman who fascinated him.

The extent of neural growth and learning during sensitive periods results in early experience having a disproportionate impact on the shaping of our brains.

Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Every director knows it is his job to be manipulative. When you make an edit, you are trying to manipulate.

Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

Yet, the main issue is not the shaping of the minds by explicit messages in the media, but the absence of a given content in the media.

Rather than molding individuals to fit the needs of the institution, institutions will be shaped to provide platforms to help individuals achieve their full potential by connecting with others and better addressing challenging performance needs.

I don't know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.

She watched his great red happiness, and it was not light as Samuel's happiness was light. It did not rise out of his roots and come floating up. He was manufacturing happiness as cleverly as he knew how, molding it and shaping it.

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

What we most care about in the world—and particularly what we cannot help caring about on the unconscious level—influences our fate by shaping us into the sorts of persons we are. Consequently, becoming astute readers of our unconscious can help us to better comprehend why our lives have evolved the way they have.

There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?

Systems are made by players rather than players making systems

Conception and form are bound together; finding and shaping the words is a matter of finding the appropriate...fit between conception and expression.

When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives—to shape us, conform us to His Son, and make us gutsier and stronger.

To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it.