Capacity Quotes

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.

Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity for free.

The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

Each runner's capacity to absorb hard training is different. Find your own unique level of comfort and success will be yours.

If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded.

You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

The best way to help Israel deal with Iran's growing nuclear capacity is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad.

...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.

There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.

I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.

I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods. Perfect, it will keep him occupied. In what capacity? Bait.

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.

Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

[The] arresting of time is photography's unique capacity, and the decision of when to click the shutter is the photographer's chief responsibility.

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

We are losing our own capacity because we are poisoned in one way or another.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.

I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.

I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.