Capacity Quotes

Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.

We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?

We have to use our reasoning capacity and set long-term goals based on our deepest values.

We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.

Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of mankind.

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

Here's the problem: we are living in a time when the act of reading is changing. The nature of a reader's attention is changing. The capacity for deep literary engagement is changing.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation

What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.

I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.

Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

I dont believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, youre in trouble.

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.

I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.

The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

No one tells me what to do -- in any capacity.

Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.

I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited.

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.