Capacity famous quotes

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Belief #Trouble #Capacity

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Shut Up #Capacity #Showers

I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Ideas #Talent #Capacity

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
-- Abraham Verghese

#Grief #Results #Capacity

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Mean #Way #Capacity

I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal

#Country #Capacity #Very Happy

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
-- Alain de Botton

#Good Relationship #Capacity

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
-- Alain de Botton

#Relationship #Intimacy #Capacity

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
-- Alan Hirsch

#Ministry #Capacity

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Political #Important #Capacity

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Capacity #Thee

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
-- Alice Walker

#Faith #Faith In God #Capacity

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
-- Alison Bechdel

#Self #Consciousness #Capacity

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
-- Alvin Plantinga

#Reason #Logical #Capacity

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Thinking #Spirit #Capacity

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.
-- Amanda McBroom

#Believe #Capacity #Just Believe

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Spiritual #Needs #Capacity

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
-- Andre Gide

#Tasks #Capacity

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
-- Ann Druyan

#Might #Capacity #Humans

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi

#Fall #Mind #Capacity

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.
-- Anwar Sadat

#Attitude #Capacity #Change Yourself

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.
-- Ariana Franklin

#Soul #Capacity

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
-- Arnold Palmer

#Capacity #Concentration #Enjoyment

We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
-- Baal Shem Tov

#Understanding #Should #Capacity

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
-- Barry Lyga

#Horror #Capacity #Humans

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.
-- Bell Hooks

#Stress #Thinking #Capacity

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
-- Betty Buckley

#Focus #Capacity #Performances

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.
-- Billie Piper

#Musical #Capacity

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.
-- Brené Brown

#Broken #Capacity #Hearted

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
-- Brian Herbert

#Skills #Choices #Capacity

Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
-- Bruce Lee

#Simple #Genius #Capacity

You must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can't give.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Omnipotence #Giving #Capacity

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies
-- C. Wright Mills

#Energy #Capacity #Plans

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#People #Failing #Capacity

The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.
-- Carlos H. Amado

#Giving #And Love #Capacity

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
-- Chalmers Johnson

#Limitless #Capacity #Teach

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

#Opportunity #Capacity #Impossibility

In a work capacity I'm only interested in acting and producing
-- Charlie Hunnam

#Acting #Capacity

No one tells me what to do -- in any capacity.
-- Chelsea Handler

#Capacity

Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.
-- Chris Asplen

#Labs #Congress #Capacity

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
-- Claire Cameron

#Survivor #Capacity #Surviving

The market is perfectly well supplied at the moment but spare capacity is very limited.
-- Claude Mandil

#Moments #Capacity #Wells

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
-- Criss Jami

#Individual #Incompetence #Capacity

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
-- Cyril Falls

#Leadership #Exercise #Capacity

You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.
-- Dan Geer

#Privacy #Capacity

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
-- Dani Rodrik

#Loser #Winner #Capacity

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
-- Daniel Barenboim

#Reality #Capacity

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
-- Dave Grohl

#Going Away #Arena #Capacity

In my experience of women, women have a greater capacity. Maybe women, even very pragmatic ones, are less guarded about showing emotions.
-- David Bezmozgis

#Emotion #Capacity #Men Women

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
-- David Blaine

#Mind #Restriction #Capacity

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.
-- David Gemmell

#Night #Capacity #Terror

I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.
-- David Price

#Needs #Congress #Capacity

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.
-- David Ricardo

#Fall #Wages #Capacity

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.
-- Dawn Powell

#Mind #Overboard #Capacity

We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.
-- Demi Lovato

#Robots #Emotion #Capacity

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.
-- Denis Dutton

#Understanding #Genius #Capacity

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
-- Denise Levertov

#Imagination #Mediocrity #Capacity

Every child has the capacity to be everything.
-- Doris Lessing

#Children #Capacity

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...
-- Dorothy Nevill

#Politician #Modern #Capacity

Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.
-- E. Stanley Jones

#Capacity #Determine

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
-- Edward Thorndike

#Men #Capacity

We firmly believe in Trafiguras unparalleled capacity to extract the full value of the Sudeste Superport.
-- Eike Batista

#Believe #Capacity #Values

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith

#Men #Spheres #Capacity

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
-- Emile Durkheim

#Feelings #Force #Capacity

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
-- Erich Fromm

#Art #Creation #Capacity

Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer

#Hurt #Increase #Capacity

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
-- Frances Moore Lappé

#Intelligent #Choices #Capacity

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Thinking #Mind #Capacity

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Want #Capacity #Cunning

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Health #Sobriety #Capacity

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.
-- Franz Kafka

#Youth #Capacity

Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity
-- Garrett Hardin

#Capacity

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
-- Garth Nix

#Finals #Capacity

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
-- George Gissing

#Understanding #Tests #Capacity

We in Europe have great capacities.
-- George Papandreou

#Europe #Capacity

The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
-- George Sand

#Passion #Divine #Capacity

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
-- George Washington

#Pride #Names #Capacity

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
-- Georges Clemenceau

#Coffee #Abstract #Capacity

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.
-- Gerald Edelman

#Consciousness #Capacity #Plans

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
-- Gerry Adams

#Republican #Capacity #Sinn Fein

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
-- Gillian Flynn

#Humanity #Flaws #Capacity

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.
-- Giovanni Papini

#Desire #Capacity

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
-- Gregory David Roberts

#Judging #Enemy #Capacity

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
-- Hannah Arendt

#Conviction #Form #Capacity

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
-- Hannah Arendt

#Action #Isolation #Capacity

It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential.
-- Harold Bloom

#Exercise #Self #Capacity

The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
-- Harold Nicolson

#Men #Broadcasting #Capacity

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

#Men #Mystery #Capacity

Without wilderness, we will eventually lose the capacity to understand America.

-- Harvey Broome

#America #Wilderness #Capacity

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.
-- Heber J. Grant

#Years #Individual #Capacity

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.
-- Heinz Kohut

#Thinking #Empathy #Capacity

The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.
-- Helen Beardsley

#Heart #Capacity #Staggering

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
-- Helen Keller

#Born #Capacity #Humans

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
-- Henry Adams

#Marriage #Capacity

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
-- Herbert Simon

#Environment #Capacity #Permanent Change

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit
-- Hugh Nibley

#Inspirational #Limits #Capacity

Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Delay #Deny #Capacity

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.
-- Jacob Needleman

#Would Be #Celebration #Capacity

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
-- Jacqueline Cochran

#Opportunity #Use #Capacity

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.
-- Jacques Barzun

#Mind #Computer #Capacity