Quotes and Sayings About Capacity
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
-- Aaron Tveit -
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 -
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
-- Abraham Verghese -
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
-- Adrienne Rich -
I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
-- Alain de Botton -
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
-- Alain de Botton -
If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
-- Alan Hirsch -
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
-- Alice Walker -
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
-- Alison Bechdel -
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
-- Alvin Plantinga -
I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.
-- Amanda McBroom -
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
-- Andre Gide -
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
-- Ann Druyan -
I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi -
If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.
-- Anwar Sadat -
Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.
-- Ariana Franklin -
Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
-- Arnold Palmer -
We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
-- Baal Shem Tov -
We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
-- Barry Lyga -
I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.
-- Bell Hooks -
Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
-- Betty Buckley -
I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.
-- Billie Piper -
Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.
-- Brené Brown -
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
-- Brian Herbert