Capacity Quotes - page 3

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! (Kurt Vonnegut)
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. View quote
Charles Cooley
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one. View quote
Alison Gopnik
Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity. View quote
Anna Lindh
If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. View quote
Danny Glover
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. View quote
Ella Maillart
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account. View quote
Leland Stanford
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. (Queen Elizabeth II)
The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation. View quote
Steven Cojocaru
There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States. View quote
Vicente Fox
The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings. View quote
Rollo May
Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration. View quote
Rollo May
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality. View quote
Indira Gandhi
One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun. View quote
David Graeber
When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness. View quote
John Adams
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.) (Robert A. Heinlein)
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will. View quote
Kofi Annan
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions. View quote
Thomas Paine
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people. View quote
Blaise Pascal