Enhancing Abilities Quotes

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

You have to know what your talent is, and you have to exploit it. And then, while you're exploiting that talent, you find ways and tools to elevate other sides of you that are weaker.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

As long as you can find a place to develop as an all-round player, then you're doing great.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it again. He argues that it is not just an option but an obligation for people to use available biomedical technologies to enhance their own--and their children's--physical and mental abilities. Harris rightly deserves his reputation for fearlessly following his ethical arguments wherever they lead.