#faculty

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

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I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#i #mathematics #resigned #spring #through

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

#architect #character #creator #distinguish #faculty

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination. ↗

— Quintilian

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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. ↗

— William James

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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different