Quotes and Sayings About Capacity

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

#Belief #Trouble #Capacity

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

#Shut Up #Capacity #Showers

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

#Ideas #Talent #Capacity

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
-- Abraham Verghese

#Grief #Results #Capacity

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

#Mean #Way #Capacity

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

#Country #Capacity #Very Happy

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
-- Alain de Botton

#Good Relationship #Capacity

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
-- Alain de Botton

#Relationship #Intimacy #Capacity

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it?
-- Alan Hirsch

#Ministry #Capacity

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

#Political #Important #Capacity

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Capacity #Thee

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.
-- Alice Walker

#Faith #Faith In God #Capacity

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
-- Alison Bechdel

#Self #Consciousness #Capacity

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
-- Alvin Plantinga

#Reason #Logical #Capacity

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
-- Amanda Lindhout

#Thinking #Spirit #Capacity

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.
-- Amanda McBroom

#Believe #Capacity #Just Believe

HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Spiritual #Needs #Capacity

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
-- Andre Gide

#Tasks #Capacity

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
-- Ann Druyan

#Might #Capacity #Humans

I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi

#Fall #Mind #Capacity

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.
-- Anwar Sadat

#Attitude #Capacity #Change Yourself

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.
-- Ariana Franklin

#Soul #Capacity

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
-- Arnold Palmer

#Capacity #Concentration #Enjoyment

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

#Understanding #Should #Capacity

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
-- Barry Lyga

#Horror #Capacity #Humans

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.
-- Bell Hooks

#Stress #Thinking #Capacity

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
-- Betty Buckley

#Focus #Capacity #Performances

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.
-- Billie Piper

#Musical #Capacity

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.
-- Brené Brown

#Broken #Capacity #Hearted

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
-- Brian Herbert

#Skills #Choices #Capacity