Capacity Quotes - page 43

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better. (Noel Gallagher)

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

Daniel Levitin

Language is the most formless means of expression. Its capacity to describe concepts without physical or visual references carries us into an advanced state of abstraction.

Ian Wilson (conceptual artist)

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

Robert Fripp

Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.

Kyle MacLachlan

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Pablo Casals

The last century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport man kind to the very pinnacle of wonder and to the very depths of despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge and ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty. It was a century in which physicists developed theories that would deny us the possibility that we can ever properly comprehend the nature of physical reality. It was also a century in which they built weapons with the capacity utterly to destroy this reality.

Jim Baggott

Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.

Roger Ebert

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Steven Pinker

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

Then there's the styling. Or rather, there isn't. Any attempt to give these cars a tapering roofline or a curved rear end is wasteful of precious capacity, which means all of them look exactly – and I mean exactly – like chest freezers. And because they have such tiny wheels they actually look like chest freezers on casters. And that in turn means they look absurd. (Jeremy Clarkson)

I wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organized religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs.

Lance Armstrong

The basic objectives and principles of war do not change. The final objective in war is the destruction of the enemy's capacity and will to fight, and thereby force him to accept the imposition of the victor's will.

Chester W. Nimitz

Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight.

Sarah McLachlan

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

Paul Farmer

After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow...... [Continued in another tweet 9 minutes later] .... Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U. S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming..... [after another 4 minutes] .... victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.

Donald Trump

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Viola Davis

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

Lois McMaster Bujold

An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.

Gough Whitlam

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

Jeanette Winterson

Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal a sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves. (Lynn Margulis)

... there was no spell to cure a broken heart that did not also destroy that heart's capacity for love forever.

Cassandra Clare

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

I have served our country under three presidents: in my most recent capacity under President Trump, as well as in my former position of National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. In that role, I was the Intelligence Community's senior expert on Russia and the former Soviet republics, including Ukraine.

Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Julia Ward Howe

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