Capacity Quotes
My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.
In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.
The capacity to recognize significant factors in a given situation is limited by the context that arises from the level of consciousness of the observer.
You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.
The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now.
We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us
Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.
We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.
We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.
The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create.
Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.
What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.
We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.
I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.
I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.
The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.
I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.” May 19, 1962
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.
You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it.
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.
The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot.
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.
