Capacities Quotes

• Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Companion

• All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Creature
  • Evolve
  • Capacities

• The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Movement

• Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Understands
  • Capacities

• A title or promotion does not make anyone a leader. Leadership emerges from the character, qualities, and capacities of the individual. Make no mistake about it, authentic leadership is personal.

  

  George Bradt
  • Character
  • Leadership
  • Capacities

• The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Capacities
  • Community Of People

• Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • People
  • Offer
  • Capacities

• Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women’s capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society—to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Knowledge
  • Capacities
  • Women's

• First grade is the prelude of things to come, a life organized around frontal-lobe capacities: sitting still; keeping sphincters in check; being able to use words rather than acting out; understanding abstract and symbolic ideas; planning for tomorrow; and being in tune with teachers and classmates.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Teachers

• Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Ignorance
  • Bodies
  • Capacities

• They acknowledged the problem of market timing, but then allowed a favored client to engage in that harmful practice. The departure of these board members should sound an alarm for all those who serve in similar capacities.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Practice
  • Market
  • Acknowledgement

• To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

  

  Ivo Andric
  • Human
  • Resist
  • Eistence

• To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Measure
  • Capacities
  • Demanded

• The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Connection
  • Will
  • Capacities

• A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

  

  Andy Hargreaves
  • School
  • Powers
  • Capacities

• Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Nature
  • Kindness
  • Creator

• Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.

  

  Charlton Ogburn
  • Being
  • Circumstances
  • Expect

• Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Culture
  • Challenge
  • Creativity

• I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Different
  • Person
  • Chance

• Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen...

  

  Charlton Ogburn
  • Wisdom
  • Virtue
  • Circumstances

• Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

  

  Judy Chicago
  • Power
  • Heritage
  • Capacities