Capacity Quotes - page 38

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this. (Pauline Neville-Jones)
Promise me, Amelie, that you'll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” "I hardly think there's any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity. View quote
Rachel Caine
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change. View quote
Robert Hewison
Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good. View quote
Robert Winston
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. View quote
Robin Marantz Henig
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population. View quote
Roger B. Taney
In the rest of the world, rich people will give a donation, and businessmen give to charities. But in Mexico, the execution capacity of what we call the social sector is missing. I find it much more effective to set up the actual social organisation and then fund it with my money. View quote
Ricardo Salinas Pliego
None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity. View quote
Said Musa
The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. View quote
Sigmar Gabriel
Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us? View quote
Soledad O'Brien
The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American. (Stan Brakhage)
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises. View quote
Salman Khurshid
Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well. View quote
Stephen Dillane
The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader. View quote
Satpal Maharaj
I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle. View quote
Sean Pertwee
A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. It's important to alternate between the two activities. View quote
Toni Servillo
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort. View quote
Tara Brach
I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity. View quote
Tulsi Gabbard
Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth. View quote
Theodore Isaac Rubin
We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there. View quote
Walt Mossberg
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)
The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan. View quote
William Kirby
Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity. View quote
Yishan Wong
Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet. View quote
Yochai Benkler
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. View quote
Randy K. Milholland