Formation Quotes

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Sweet Love, Book

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Women

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014

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• Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

  William George Jordan

  Education, Training, Mind

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

  John Dewey

  Spiritual, Choices Made, Discovery

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.351, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Chiefs, Aim

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• Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a bad one. We need to take a conscious, intentional hand in the developmental process. We need to understand what the formation of the human spirit is, and how it can best be done as Christ would have it done. This is an indispensable aspect of developing a psychology that is adequate to human life.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Hands, Psychology

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• It is implicit in the self that the self will automatically evolve if you can dissolve it. It re-patterns itself after archetypal formations that exist deep within the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Mind, Patterns

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• Education is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world - all before we ever start 'thinking' about it

  James K. A. Smith

  Thinking, Imagination, Desire

  James K. A. Smith (2009). “Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation”, p.39, Baker Academic

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• Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

  Jon Gordon

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Nov 30, 2015

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• I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Giving, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.15, Routledge

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• If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

  Alfred de Musset

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  "Narration; The confession of a child of the century".

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• I wish to be
  an inspector of volcanoes.
  I want to study cloud formations
  and memorize the wind
  and learn by heart the habits of
  the ponderosa pine.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Heart, Clouds

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• But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

  Georges Cuvier

  Sea, Upset, Earth

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• Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.

  Karl Marx

  Tasks, Matter, Projects

  Karl Marx, Eugene Kamenka (1983). “The Portable Karl Marx”, Viking Adult

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• When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

  Adolph Malan

  Diving, Aviation, Proportion

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• Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

  Hedi Slimane

  Life, Music, Fashion

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• Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Moving, Ideas

  Dallas Willard, Keith Meyer, Bruce McNicol, Keith Matthews (2014). “The Kingdom Life: A Practical Theology of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation”, p.54, Tyndale House

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• The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, People, Important

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• Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion themselves, to change their live, is given ideological priority over the relation within which they themselves are actually formed, situated, and sustained.

  Talal Asad

  Relationship, Fashion, Life Changing

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• We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.

  Robert L. Payton

  Sight, Giving, Links

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• Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

  Patrick Geddes

  Winning, Ideas, Influence

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• The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Good Things, Household

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Wonderful, Arise

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Novum Organum”, p.12, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Nature, Clouds, Together

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