"Promise is the capacity for letting people down." — Cyril Connolly
"Promise is the capacity for letting people down."
More Capacity Quotes
- I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had… — Tyra Banks
- Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
- We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are… — Andrew Bernstein
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely… — Annie Besant
- Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. — Kathryn Bigelow
- I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of… — Theodore Bikel
- In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
- Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley
- I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
- I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of -… — Warren Buffett
- Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is… — Frederick Buechner