Capacity Quotes

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Yoga is your mind control capacity.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

As we patiently follow the Savior, He will bless us beyond our own capacity to become what He wants us to be.

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit