Capacity Quotes

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

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

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

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

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

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

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.

As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others.

One must develop skills that stretch capacities, that make one more than what one is.

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

By learning of Him, by believing in Him, by following Him, there is the capacity to become like Him.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.