Capacity Quotes

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.

We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

Heaven is not a club we enter. Heaven is a state we attain, in accordance with our “capacity to receive” a blessed and sanctified nature.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.

A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet

If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

The expansion of your own consciousness, love capacity, humility and compassion - this is the path; this is the way.

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal.

I had an unbelievable opportunity here to try and follow in similar footsteps [of Michael Jordan], but in a different capacity hopefully. I took that opportunity and I'm excited about it.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

The capability of human life is beyond our imagination. What counts is the human capacity to investigate and transform our own mind and the world around us in a powerful and positive direction.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

Soil is a living ecosystem and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.