Capacity Quotes

2116 Capacity quotes by 1415 unique authors

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way. — Winslow Homer
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.… — John F. Kennedy
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. — Eddie Rickenbacker
If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you will lose the… — Rajneesh
Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you… — Rajneesh
Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where… — Rajneesh
If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of… — Oswald Chambers
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will… — May Sarton
Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I trust form, trust… — Gerhard Richter
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. — H. L. Mencken
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with… — Monica Baldwin
People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a… — Eric Hoffer
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power. — Eric Hoffer
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. — Douglas Coupland
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence. — Rollo May
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has… — Rollo May
Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something "fast and easy" that's about to come next. The greater… — Steve Pavlina
Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament,… — Frank Chodorov
A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism. Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity. — Andrew Joseph Galambos
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a… — Calvin Coolidge
Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,… — Aldo Leopold
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary… — Charles Darwin
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons

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