Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside… — Corliss Lamont
Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and… — Paul Rice
A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
...(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
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. — Ambrose Bierce
We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in… — Unknown Author
What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go. — Dani Rodrik
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -… — David Easton
The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities,… — Maria Montessori
Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of… — Yanni
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. — David Sarnoff
The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that… — Henry Giroux
Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences. — Jonathan Zittrain
The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of… — Jacque Fresco
Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them. — Jerome Groopman
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he… — Haile Selassie
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your… — C. Wright Mills
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to… — Andrew Jackson
Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not. — Lawrence Block
Our effectiveness depends on our capacity to be audacious and astute, clear and appealing. I would hope that we can create a language more fearless… — Eduardo Galeano
Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure… — David Price
Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse. — Leo Durocher
I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a… — Mickey Kaus

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