Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

Development which has no regard for whom or what it harms is not development. It is the opposite of progress, damaging the Earth's capacity to… — George Monbiot
...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis… — Joan Anderson
Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways… — Richard Louv
Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity — Garrett Hardin
A broad and joined-up approach is needed if we are to match human demands with the capacity of the planet — Tony Juniper
Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to… — Phil Harding
Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel. — Joseph Campbell
Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. — Calvin Coolidge
The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of… — Stuart Ewen
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not… — Joseph Conrad
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary. — Theodor Adorno
Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman… — Stanley Crouch
You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved,… — Geneen Roth
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these… — Nathan Wolfe
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for… — Melanie Klein
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality. — Daniel Barenboim
If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what… — Josh Kaufman
Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit.… — Dan Millman
I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change. — Leonard Bernstein
A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good. — John Foster Dulles
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God. — Alice Walker
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that… — Michel de Montaigne
Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to… — Margaret Mead
Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors. — Baden Powell de Aquino

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