Capacity Quotes · Page 23

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

— John Steinbeck

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

— Horace

The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

— Carlos H. Amado

“Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

— Victoria Principal

The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.

— Maurizio Sarri

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

— Terry Southern

We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

— Richard Louv

I played at Room 5 a lot, which is probably the smallest capacity venue in Los Angeles. I begged my friends to…

— Phoebe Bridgers

That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that…

— David Hawkins

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best…

— George Eliot

Increased transmission capacity can provide consumer cost savings and reduce the need for fossil-fueled power plants that exist solely to meet peak…

— Wes Moore

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

— Marijane Meaker

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points,…

— Alexander Rodchenko

... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near…

— Warren Buffett

I believe that is what the God experience does for us. It calls us beyond our limits into the fullness of life…

— John Shelby Spong

You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to…

— Regina Spektor

When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and…

— Philip Kitcher

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life.…

— Stephen Covey

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that…

— Charles Darwin

There have been studies done on people who meditate and they have found that they actually have increased grey matter in certain…

— Jennifer Ashton

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to…

— Rudolf Rocker

On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher…

— David Hume

When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and…

— Lance Henriksen

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity…

— Pema Chodron

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger…

— James Madison

To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with…

— Alistair Cooke

The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no…

— Walter Lippmann

“...are you a person - with volition and maybe some stubborness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

I have heard and seen many examples of the cruelty that we are able to visit on one another during my time.…

— Desmond Tutu

We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is,…

— Susan Faludi

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

— Storm Jameson

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

— Cleveland Amory

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

— Isla Fisher

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

— Abraham Verghese

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

— John Dewey

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

— Elizabeth David

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

— Brené Brown

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

— Henry Ward Beecher