Capacity Quotes - Page 7

• In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Self, Careers, Understanding

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• To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Creative, Vision, Needs

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Men, Wicked, Example

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.221, CUP Archive

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• To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

  Al Oerter

  Exercise, Doors, Training

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• We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

  John Ashcroft

  Effort, Needs, Terrorism

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• We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

  Akio Morita

  Teamwork, Heart, Exercise

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• It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

  George Gissing

  Stupid, Moving, Individual

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.50, The Floating Press

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• We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

  Kofi Annan

  Mean, Political Will, Problem

  Twitter post from May 06, 2016

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• Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

  Cyril Connolly

  Names, Literature, Infinite

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Entrepreneur

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.46, Routledge

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• Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Children, Heart, Wonderful

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Important, Shock

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• I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Thinking, Losing, Claims

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• I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

  Berry Gordy

  People, African American, Aptitude

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• Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.

  David Belle

  Inspirational, Learning, Able

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• We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Children, May

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• But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memorable, Unrequited Love, Heartbreaking

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• We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Jesus, Father

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• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

  Norman Cousins

  Hope, Live Life, Facts

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• The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

  Cyril Falls

  Leadership, Exercise

  Cyril Falls (1943). “Ordeal by Battle”

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• Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

  Ricky Martin

  Teacher, Hero, Helping Others

  "Ricky Martin giving a voice to exploited children". "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2010.

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• We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Decisions You Make, Self

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacities clamor to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. That is to say, capacities are needs, and therefore are intrinsic values as well.

  Abraham Maslow

  Eye, Order, Capacity To Love

  "Toward a Psychology of Being".

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• It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Self, Redemption

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Same Mistakes, Knows

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.60, Rodale

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