Capacity Quotes - Page 12

• The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It's all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moving, Men, Race

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• Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Law, Knowing

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• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

  William James

  Attitude, Accomplished, Amazed

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• If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't work. The problem here is the government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it. The Buffett Rule would raise $3.2 billion a year, and take 514 years just to pay off Obama's 2011 budget deficit.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Years, Pay

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• However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
  Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
  The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Heart, Giving

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

  Franz Kafka

  Inner Beauty, True Beauty, Youth

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• A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Roots, Long, People

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.131, Pan Macmillan

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• Movement has the capacity to take us to the home
  of the soul, the world within for which we have
  no name. Movement reaches our deepest nature,
  and dance creatively expresses it. Through dance,
  we gain new insights into the mystery of our lives.
  When brought forth from the inside and forged by
  the desire to create personal change, dance has the
  profound power to heal the body, psyche and soul.

  Anna Halprin

  Life, Change, Dance

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• The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

  Arthur Helps

  Greatness, Men, Quality

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• ...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Men, Community

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Important, Fruit

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Agency, Addiction, Moral

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• The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.

  Watchman Nee

  Blood, Christ On The Cross, Roots

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.10, CLC Publications

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• These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, 'Intelligence Briefing.'

  George W. Bush

  Morning, Intellectual, Skins

  At the Gridiron Club dinner; quoted in National Review (16 April 2001).

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• Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

  Peter Senge

  Information Sharing, Creating, Information Knowledge

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• The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Men, Depth

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• Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property which allows man to observe himself in action, in activity. Man can see himself in the act of seeing, in the act of acting, in the act of feeling, the act of thinking. Feel himself feeling, think himself thinking.

  Augusto Boal

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• Yoga’s supreme objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization, yet the tradition also teaches you how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity, and meaning. In the end, yoga has less to do with what you can do with your body and more to do with the happiness that unfolds from realizing your full potential.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Yoga, Full Potential

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• At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Assessment, Self, Growing

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• The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.

  Shawn Achor

  Glasses, Water, Important

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• Very sad to hear about the passing of Nelson Mandela. He was a true inspiration for human rights and equality for South Africa and the reason apartheid no longer exists there. The world will never forget his capacity for forgiveness and magnanimity. RIP

  Bryan Adams

  Rip, Inspiration, Rights

  FaceBook post by Bryan Adams from Dec 06, 2013

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• If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Limits, Sticks, Ifs

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• Yoga is your mind control capacity.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Yoga, Mind, Mind Control

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

  George Washington

  Pride, Names, Patriotism

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.5

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• Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a reason for penance and transferring that same capacity for love to the Lord. I have watched them master fear so as to drive themselves unsparingly toward the love of God. That is why, when talking of that chaste harlot, the Lord does not say, 'because she feared,' but rather, 'because she loved much' she was able to drive out love with love (Lk. 7:47).

  John Climacus

  Christian, Talking, Mad

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.129, Paulist Press

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