Capacity Quotes

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

While every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.

Know that the most neurotic, most ugly situation is simply testing you. It is testing capacity, beyond his control, your flexibility, your adjustment and your character.

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.

We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are... That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity... because, if it's true, then we become estranged from all we know.

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth.

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences

Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

And once you're unafraid with death, I think your capacity for violence is immediately increased. Once you're unafraid of death, you are a very, very dangerous adversary

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits