Capacities Quotes

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Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy. — Gregory David Roberts
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their… — Dalai Lama
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! — Umberto Eco
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us… — Margaret Fuller
The gift of the Holy Ghost is a gift of power. The Holy Ghost inspires and heals, guides and warns, enhances our natural capacities, inspires… — Sheri L. Dew
If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. — Henry David Thoreau
The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few… — Eric Hoffer
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to… — Orhan Pamuk
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent… — Jonathan Safran Foer
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the… — Rachel Carson
Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. Itâ€™s a great enhancer.… — Lance Armstrong
The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves… — Benjamin Spock
To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged… — Ivo Andric
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case… — Frederick Douglass
Wow,â€ I said. â€œAre you making this up?â€ â€œHazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellectual capacities, make up a letter from Peter Van Houten… — John Green
If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and… — Timothy Keller
And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I… — Anne Bronte

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