Capacity Quotes - Page 2

• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.

  Norman Cousins

  Hope, Facts, Significant

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• We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

  William Godwin

  Thinking, Tasks, Wells

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.345

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• That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.

  Clint Walker

  People, Tvs, Boxes

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• True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

  Corliss Lamont

  Character, Self, Acting

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• As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Confidence, Positive Attitude

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.37

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Pain, Genius, Infinite

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• I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Believe, Self, Identity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

  Donald Judd

  Attitude, Ideas, Tables

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Knute Rockne

  Pain, Definitions, Genius

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• A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

  Dawn Powell

  Mind, Overboard

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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  It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Patience, Time

  Elizabeth Taylor (1968). “A wreath of roses”

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• Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

  George Santayana

  Men, Dignity, Despise

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.230, Рипол Классик

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• Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

  Betty Buckley

  Focus, Performances

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• Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

  Dee Hock

  Expansion, Information, Language

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• I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.

  David Price

  Needs, Congress, Wells

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• Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Thinking, Mind, Action

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• I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

  Barbara Jordan

  Women, Believe, Compassion

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• 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Genius, Statistics

  History of Frederick the Great bk. 4, ch. 3 (1858 - 1865).

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• What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

  Henry Ford

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, America

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• In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Eight, Years

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

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• 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.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Support, World

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• We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Song, Stars, Night

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• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Powerful, Past

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2016

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• Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Taken, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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