Capacity Quotes · Page 16

[Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.

— Hillary Clinton

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity…

— Michael Haneke

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity…

— Leo Tolstoy

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without…

— Mark Twain

I think now, with our technology, our capacity to grow food, our ability to stop raping the Earth and destroying the ecology…

— Harry Belafonte

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and…

— Jane Austen

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a…

— Michel de Montaigne

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

— Paulo Coelho

The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to…

— Barack Obama

Autonomy is the capacity to act on principles that are one's own and one will exercise this capacity by means of a…

— Alison Assiter

I think that when Magic decided that he didn't want to be with the organization any longer in an official capacity that…

— Jeanie Buss

Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth…

— Sarah J. Buckley

The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought…

— Daniel H. Pink

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future…

— Alan Watts

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

— Mark Twain

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

— Anonymous

If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often…

— Peter Singer

You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd…

— Ban Ki-moon

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

— George Weigel

Yoga’s supreme objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization, yet the tradition also teaches you how to live and…

— Rod Stryker

Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding…

— Dennis Kucinich

I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come…

— Cornel West

Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.

— Edna Adan Ismail

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

— Michel de Montaigne