Capacity Quotes

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

The East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian capacity for infinite delay

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

I've never lost my capacity to be shocked.

If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Every one of us has the capacity to lead.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.

People lost the capacity of using their brain. It's all about the label. Not about the labels showing but subtlety of the labels.

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being.

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.