Capacity Quotes · Page 128

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little…

— Henry David Thoreau

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps…

— Stanley Greenspan

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

— Lewis Mumford

Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step…

— Elie Wiesel

I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or…

— Tatiana Maslany

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

— Robert Ardrey

Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As…

— Reza Aslan

“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection…

— Gideon Haigh

Because the challenges will continue to show up in life, but if you have the inner strength - whether that be your…

— Tony Robbins

There is a capacity for violence we all harbour, and under certain circumstances, it comes out.

— John Hillcoat

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

— Alain de Botton

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

— Joseph Campbell

Our growing addiction to the Internet is impairing precious human capacities such as memory, concentration, pattern recognition, meaning-making, and intimacy. We are…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

It's a world creation show [Shadowhunters], so we've gotta work hard in the physical production capacity with the visual effects, the sets…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton…

— Noam Chomsky

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

— Eric Hoffer

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity…

— Stanley Crouch

Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.…

— James J. Kilpatrick

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

— Thomas S. Monson

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed…

— William Faulkner

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear…

— Jack Norris

For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.

— Jim Rash

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no…

— Pearl S. Buck