Quotes About Enhancement

#1. I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing.

Steve Maraboli

#2. We must recognize that "happy" is not a business goal. Service providers pursue "happy." Leaders pursue growth, competitive advantage, mission enhancement, and cost management.

Tina Nunno

#3. Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

Kyan Douglas

#4. Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

Herbert Read

#5. If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?

Charles Platt

#6. Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional ... a map to self discovery.

Gabrielle Roth

#7. Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

Alexander Hamilton

#8. No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

E. O. Wilson

#9. After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

Albert Hadley

#10. Movies, to him and the majority of the planet, are an enhancement to a life. The way a glass of wine complements a dinner. I'm the other way around. I'm the kind of person who eats a few bites of food so that my stomach can handle the full bottle of wine I'm about to drink.

Patton Oswalt

#11. I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't believe in chemical enhancement of my writing. Just slight, but nothing crazy.

Chang-rae Lee

#12. Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode.

Camille Paglia

#13. The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In addition, it profiles the state of the art of software construction and enhancement. I wish I'd had this wonderful reference book years ago.

Tom DeMarco

#14. We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

Francis Collins

#15. A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

David Dreman

#16. The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first!

Behdad Sami

#17. Recurring dreams for some may seem like a punishment; the reality is it is done out of love to enable your spiritual enhancement.

Pamela Cummins

#18. Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment.

Jean Baker Miller

#19. The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.

Joe Baca

#20. Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?

Aimee Mullins

#21. I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.

Kate Middleton

#22. Stagnancy will suffocate a business ... Leadership must be dynamic and evolving to ensure successful growth, enhancement, and longevity.

Steve Maraboli

#23. Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

Gregory Stock

#24. Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

William Stafford

#25. If the self remains in its citadel, anxious to control and heavily defended, it declines in the sources of vitality. To lay the citadel open, however, is to court danger: a danger inseparable from the enhancement of life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#26. Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.

Jan Zwicky

#27. Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.

David Perlmutter

#28. Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

Jamais Cascio

#29. And something else came back, from that later first morning at Kensington Park Gardens: a sense that the house was not only an enhancement of Toby's interest but a compensation for his lack of it.

Alan Hollinghurst

#30. Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand, - in the name of a concern for "human beings" - regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.

Barry Goldwater

#31. Gemini....You revere scientists and shamans alike,
providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm."
(Rob Brezsny)

Lesley Thomas

#32. Disarmament should be conducive to the enhancement of every country's general security instead of becoming the instrument and means for a few countries to strengthen their military superiority by weakening or restricting other countries.

Sha Zukang

#33. If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement, put me in, coach.

Jeb Bush

#34. Enhancement, Not Alteration.

Meredith McCardle

#35. Red may be bold on lips....but I prefer mine naked, without enhancement, so you know exactly what you are getting

Ladyaslan

#36. I'm at that age where I notice friends checking out my face and wondering, Has she been Botoxed? There's a new map there people that are trying to read. I think if I did get any kind of enhancement I would be very public about it. I don't want people wondering - I want them to know.

Heidi Julavits

#37. The culture of the U.S. military is such that human enhancement is accepted as a goal, taking people beyond the norm. There are so many resources going into that kind of research.

Jessa Gamble

#38. Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.

Wole Soyinka

#39. The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

Ben Bernanke

#40. The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

Steve Israel

#41. The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.

Denis Waitley

#42. In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#43. Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.

Paul Stamets

#44. The process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#45. Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence - in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement - wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#46. It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

Louis Silverstein

#47. Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

James Altucher

#48. Jesus is not life enhancement. Jesus is life.

Mark Hall

#49. Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Leon Kass

#50. Instead of plastic surgery, I'd rather have a height enhancement surgery.

L.Joe

#51. I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large.

Michael Sandel

#52. The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

#53. Allport suggested that self-esteem can often be a goal in itself: "most people want to be higher on the status ladder than they are" (p. 371). However, self-enhancement can be based in avoidance as well as approach motives. Insecurity

Anonymous

#54. I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

Jane Austen

#55. If you can't say anything nice about somebody, step away from the voice enhancement equipment.

Gail Collins

#56. An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live.

Maria Montessori

#57. Now there are permanent gray smudges in Scotty's vision. He says he likes them
actually, what he says is: "I consider them a visual enhancement." We think they remind him of his mom.

Jennifer Egan

#58. Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of these types of immune responses is seen consistently with many medicinal mushrooms that have been tested by cancer researchers.

Paul Stamets

#59. Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

Dan Quayle

#60. Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#61. Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

Larry King