Capacity Quotes · Page 21

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.

— Paul Kagame

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

— Robert Todd Carroll

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

— Henry Adams

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

— Seth Lloyd

A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.

— Rick Warren

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

— Lee H. Hamilton

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Each human being has been granted a virtue: the capacity to choose. For he who does not use this virtue, it becomes…

— Paulo Coelho

We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity.

— Paul Wernick

Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity…

— Peter Drucker

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

— Susan Sontag

I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

— Rory McIlroy

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for…

— Anonymous

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to…

— Michel de Montaigne

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who…

— Kitty Kelley

There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical…

— Pallam Raju

The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters…

— Louis Sachar

To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different…

— Samuel Johnson

All human beings are very creative - full of potential, full of energy... So, money kind of allows them to express it...…

— Muhammad Yunus

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs,…

— John W. Gardner

The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This…

— Michael Dowd

For many, life has become more about what they can't do rather than what they can do. The truth, however, is that…

— T. Harv Eker

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts

Future arises out of your misery, not out of your celebration. A really celebrating person has no future; he lives this moment,…

— Rajneesh

There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher…

— Noam Chomsky

When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality.…

— Tea Obreht

Clearly, there needs to be an increase in the capacity of the railway system. That's why there are these projections of increasing…

— Thabo Mbeki

The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that…

— Harrison Ford

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having…

— Charles Darwin

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

— Noam Chomsky

The people have the right to know whether or not the person they elect has the capacity to represent them.

— Ron Crumpton

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

— Edward Thorndike

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

— William Godwin

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

— Mark Twain

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

— William Hazlitt

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

— Piyush Goyal

Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.

— Norman Davies