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Capacity Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of…
- One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
- Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a…
- He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing…
- Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
- One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
- We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were…
More Capacity Quotes
- I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2.… — Tyra Banks
- Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
- We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress… — Andrew Bernstein
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
- I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder. — Theodore Bikel
- In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
- Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley
- I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally… — Berkeley Breathed
- I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American… — Warren Buffett
- Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge… — Frederick Buechner