Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

Failure or success in business is primarily not determined by mental capacity but by MENTAL ATTITUDES — Walter Dill Scott
Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America. — Harvey Broome
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game… — Lodewijk Prins
Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues… — Bruce Mau
The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually… — Joseph Pilates
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity… — Christian Wiman
I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and… — Christian Wiman
To act honestly- even at the risk of saying the unpleasant truth, or of saying no and causing distress to others- if done with intelligence… — Piero Ferrucci
In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their… — Daniel Yergin
Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less… — Charlton Ogburn
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and… — Robert Hewison
A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand… — William Henry Chamberlin
The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited. — Claude Mandil
It’s one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he’s leading to realize whatever… — Benjamin Zander
Therefore every person born within the United States, its territories or districts, whether the parents are citizens or aliens, is a natural born citizen in… — William Rawle
No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that… — Steve Tesich
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.... — James Forrestal
The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems. — C. West Churchman
Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think. — Unknown Author
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this… — Katherine Dunn
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for… — R. K. Milholland
Men cannot think like dogs.... [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given… — Corey Ford
Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron,… — Bernard Lown
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the… — Charles Tilly

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