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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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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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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We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
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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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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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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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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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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
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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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Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.
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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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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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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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Genius is merely the capacity for taking infinite pains.
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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.
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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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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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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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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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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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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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All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.
