Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of… — Oliver Goldsmith
No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound… — James E. Faust
The capacity for extravagant emotion that my husband finds so attractive in me can be exhausting, especially to a child. My moods are mercurial, and… — Ayelet Waldman
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. — Abraham Maslow
The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and… — Rajneesh
Heaven and hell are not geographical. If you go in search of them you will never find them anywhere. They are within you, they are… — Rajneesh
The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all… — Eric Jensen
Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when… — Rajneesh
Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity… — Dalai Lama
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they breathe and they… — Rajneesh
On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow… — Simon Conway Morris
He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four. — Unknown Author
Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow… — William V. Shannon
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can… — Stephen Jay Gould
Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not… — Nancy Chodorow
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and… — John F. Kennedy
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity,… — Francine du Plessix Gray
The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is… — Mahatma Gandhi

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