Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a… — Rene Cassin
The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan… — Lev S. Vygotsky
This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person. — Paulo Freire
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at… — Paulo Freire
The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild… — Mark Udall
Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices. — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be… — Dalai Lama
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature. — Margot Asquith
The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine...In the fast changing world of today her vision… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
True love should be transformative; a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger,… — Daisaku Ikeda
Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in… — Tara Brach
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live… — Harry Belafonte
Once you have seen quality horsemanship and are exposed to the things you can do to help a horse be gentle and dependable, then why… — Buck Brannaman
The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's… — Noam Chomsky
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to… — John Lennox
Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. — BrenÃ© Brown
So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation… — John F. Kennedy
The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation… — Maria Montessori
We can program ourselves to be the person we want to be, whatever the subject matter is, live in it by a mental physical program… — Michael Jackson
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our… — Tara Brach
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering...… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. — Stan Brakhage
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our… — George Lakoff

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