Capacity Quotes · Page 37

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

— Ilaiyaraaja

We must permanently reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban and the restrictions on high capacity magazines.

— Kerry Kennedy

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

— St. Catherine of Siena

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

— Henri Nouwen

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads.

— Thomas Paine

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

— Anwar Sadat

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is…

— Anonymous

Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

— Emile Durkheim

I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell…

— George Carlin

All human beings are born with unique gifts. The healthy functioning community depends on realizing the capacity to develop each gift.

— Peter Senge

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious…

— William James

The opportunity that is unique [to our] time is what inspires me to do everything I can to move things forward. This…

— Sylvia Earle

Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the…

— Ira Progoff

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward…

— Rollo May

The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding…

— John Cheever

Singing is my form of expression; it's what I've always done and I hope that in some capacity I'll always have that…

— Wendy Matthews

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character,…

— Arthur Ashe

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you…

— Val Kilmer

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

— Charles Horton Cooley

We need to invest in technologies that amplify human capacity, not replace it.

— Reid Hoffman

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

— Lytton Strachey

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.

— Lena Dunham

I have always told my daughters not to be dependent on anyone in any capacity.

— Sridevi

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

— Jordan Peterson

“The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity.”

— Mike Stachura

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

— Knute Rockne

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

— Gautama Buddha

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

— Alexander Mackendrick

People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity.

— Charlie Munger

Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.

— Stephen Covey

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

— Henry A. Kissinger

We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.

— Eike Batista

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

— George Eliot