Capacity Quotes - page 32

The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself. (Ivanka Trump)
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process. View quote
Johan Galtung
By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves. View quote
Cass Sunstein
I've never lost my capacity to be shocked. View quote
Kathy Reichs
...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and... undemanding...maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. View quote
Christopher McDougall
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. View quote
Curtis Sittenfeld
If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.' View quote
Liz Murray
The outcry surrounding the public disclosure of the project had taken only three months to die, this-thought Jocundra-a telling commentary upon the spongelike capacity of the American consciousness to absorb miracles, digest them along with the ordinary whey provided by the media, and reduce them to half-remembered trivia. View quote
Lucius Shepard
Less intelligence capacity equals less safety. View quote
Mike Pompeo
You eventually have to figure out how to balance the books. So that's the reason I gave up my day job to come do this was to go fight to create the space where spending matches America's capacity to tax, and that means economic growth and a smaller, humbler federal government. View quote
Mike Pompeo
Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. (Michael J. Gelb)
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. View quote
Annie Lennox
Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance the insurance company is within self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness. View quote
Dalai Lama
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. View quote
Michael Fox
The ancients, persuaded that there is no body without a moving force, regarded the substance of bodies as composed of two primitive attributes. It was held that, through one of these attributes, this substance has the capacity for moving and, through the other, the capacity for being moved. View quote
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Capacity to endure through infinite transformation must be innate in that mighty civilization which has seen the intellectual culture of the Nile Valley of Assyria and of Babylon wax and wane and disappear, and which today gazes on the future with the same invincible faith with which it met the past. View quote
Jagadish Chandra Bose
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. View quote
Mary Catherine Bateson
This is pure ends-justify-the-means logic. And the means are pushing falsehood. The notion here seems to be that Trump is helping America avoid perdition, and thus must be given leeway to lie; if we didn't allow him to lie, the left would continue to do so, and then they'd win and drive us straight into Hell. But that suggests that truth no longer has the capacity to drive voters or Americans. If that's true, republicanism is finished as a principle – if we can only lie to voters to get them to vote for us, that undermines the decency of republicanism altogether. View quote
Ben Shapiro
I am convinced that the United Nations provides the best road to the future for those who have confidence in our capacity to shape our own fate on this planet. View quote
Kurt Waldheim
I had just returned from an official trip to Botswana in my capacity as Vice President of India about one year before President Zail Singh's term was scheduled to end. That was when I first received a hint from Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that he intended nominating me as the Congress party's candidate for the high office of the President of India. View quote
R. Venkataraman
A priority for us is the creation of more jobs that will minimise poverty and provide for prosperity for all Sri Lankans. Towards this, we need to enhance our capacity to successfully compete in global markets while creating the necessary space for investments to come in. (Ranil Wickremesinghe)
My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh. View quote
Morris Gleitzman
[M]ath prodigies are set somewhat apart from the more general-capacity prodigies, being seemingly possessed of a weird bit of wiring more than an over-all enhanced capacity for learning to do things. View quote
Adam Gopnik
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda
The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population. View quote
Douglas McGregor