Capacity Quotes
2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors
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I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little…
— Vandana Shiva
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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity…
— Pema Chodron
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The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on…
— Noam Chomsky
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Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your…
— James E. Faust
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Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
— Andy Hargreaves
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A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.
— Andy Hargreaves
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When you take action, particularly bold action, the boundaries of what you believe to be possible (your belief system) expand. Which, in turn, gives you…
— Robert Ringer
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Your woman knows your weaknesses better than anybody. She knows where you will falter and give up. She knows the degree of mediocrity you will…
— David Deida
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Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.
— David Deida
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Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
— Ilchi Lee
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The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both.…
— Swami Satchidananda
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When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.
— Margaret Heffernan
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
— R. D. Laing
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Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough…
— Tommy Douglas
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Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to…
— Joseph Butler
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In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new…
— Jean Alesi
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Did you not look upon the world this morning and imagine it as the boy might see it? And did you not recognize the mist…
— Jamie O'Neill
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Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies…
— Patricia Hampl
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I imagine a world in which all humans are born with an intact capacity to love, and I am willing to devote my life to…
— Robin Lim
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To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of…
— Chase Twichell
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Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is the…
— Daniel Gordis
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I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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People seem to have an impressive capacity to change themselves if you believe in them, if you tell them they can and give them some…
— William R. Miller
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