Capacity Quotes
2116 quotes by 1415 authors
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I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope…
— Jarvis Cocker
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But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security…
— John Abizaid
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What are the conditions of the creative attitude, of seeing and responding, of being aware and being sensitive to what one is aware of? First…
— Erich Fromm
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The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
— Jennifer Aniston
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
— H. L. Mencken
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We used to sing along to Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald records together. She had the most amazing voice ... She's always encouraged me, and…
— Sheryl Crow
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The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife.…
— Laozi
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Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
— George Nelson
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless…
— Richard Lamm
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Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself- if…
— Nhat Hanh
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to…
— Herbert Spencer
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In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there;…
— Colin Gunton
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I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his…
— T. Coleman Andrews
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its…
— William Thompson
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Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the…
— Gad Saad
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300…
— Gaylord Nelson
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
— Jack Kornfield
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He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.
— Sun Tzu
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