Capacity Quotes

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

Priority determines capacity.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light--I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love.

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.

Power is the capacity to generate relationships.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!