A Quote by Sergio De La Pava

Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

Sergio De La Pava

Quote Topics

Casts Connection Flash Genuine Human Insights Intensity Lightning Loneliness Spell Unsettling Wisdom

Quote Author

Sergio De La Pava
American - Novelist
Born: 1970

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Samuel Butler

Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

Marcia Whicker

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

Michel Foucault

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

J. M. Coetzee

An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.

Carl Rogers

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

Jim Trelease

Truth casts a spell of its own.

Libba Bray

No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.

Beryl Markham

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

Joyce Cary

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

I think it's important for people to stay human and remember that genuine human connection is more fulfilling than anything that technology has to offer. We all have it within us, and music is something that can bring that out of us.

Jon Batiste

Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the power of God; the demonstration of argument and the logic of the schools, but not the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the all-convincing logic of His lightning flash, such as convinced Saul before the Damascus gate. When the Spirit was outpoured the disciples were all filled with power from on high, the most unlettered tongue could silence gainsayers, and with its new fire burn its way through obstacles as flames fanned by mighty winds sweep through forests.