Capacity Quotes
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When you were a stock player, you worked on anything that was shooting on the lot in any capacity.
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I had known, number one, that there would never be any role for me in the leadership capacity with SCLC. Why? First, I'm a woman. Also, I'm not a minister. And second, I am a person that feels that I have to maintain some degree of personal integrity and be my own barometer of what is important and what is not.
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A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.
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Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
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We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
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Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.
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It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
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I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.
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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
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Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.
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Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.
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After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive.
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Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.
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I am encouraged that more work has been done in the last few months compared to before. But still there are many gaps that we need to fill in terms of human and laboratory capacity and infrastructure.
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Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.
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If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.
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The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
