Capacity Quotes
I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.
I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.
I think that me now, I wouldn't take a 16-year-old seriously in any capacity. "You're a kid, why would I listen to you? You're a child."
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
We need to increase the capacity; we need to improve performance so that we are more effective at lending that kind of support.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.
A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.
From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value.
Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.
"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."
We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.
I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.
You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.
I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.
The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.
We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.
You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.
When your spiritual capacity becomes stagnant, the oil stops flowing
Use the capacity and talent given to you by God to go and subdue the world given to you by Him
The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.
If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.
Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.
Life introduces us to the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. What is objective truth might exceed human capacity to ever fully perceive, comprehend, and explain.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
The next presumption is always valid: one's knowledge corresponds toone's intellectual capacity.