Capacity Quotes
Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.
Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.
It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.
A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That's good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.
Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
Lindsay Doran goes round the table and introduces everyone - making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.
Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.
Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.
Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.
You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.
Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.
Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.
If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.
I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.
The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
We all have the capacity to find the will to do what must be done - even when that which we must do terrifies us most. Remember this.
Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.
We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.
I discovered that the heart is a breakable thing, but also discovered my capacity to love another person.