Capacity Quotes

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

The more open you are within, the more capacity you will have to know, to see, and to love.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

Our joy now and forever is inextricably tied to our capacity to love.

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

I admire your capacity for admiring.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good.

It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity.

You need to be careful not to over-reach and also assess the capacity you have to work with.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

I feel that the only true security I have is my capacity, however limited, to love.

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

You have your own difficulties. We watch, with friendly confidence in your capacity to merge differences in the grand dream of Canadian design.

At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers.

All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.

So, in life we have a one question final exam - and it's not the kind of exam you can cram for at the very end. One of the main reasons we're alive is to expand our capacity to love.

A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...