Capacity Quotes

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart's capacity for Heaven.

There has to be a force on the horizon that can come very quickly. But the way we run and fund peacekeeping, this capacity is unavailable.

Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

Revelation is always measured by capacity.

Power in organizations is the capacity generated by relationships. It is an energy that comes into existence through relationships.

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes a curse - and others will always choose for him.

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.

You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Your mind has some clearness and capacity for right thinking; it opens towards the heights, but for its own sake, - to receive light from above for its own activity.

I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.

To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.

Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.