Capacity Quotes
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If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.
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The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.
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I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.
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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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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
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Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.
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History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.
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I think that essentially that this hue and cry that she isn't qualified, there's a sexist basis to it. Does she have the mental capacity? Give me a break. Would they say that about a man? I don't think they would.
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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
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Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences.
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The emission of ideas by the press ought to be as free as the human capacity for thought.
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.
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Of course our genes will make some capacities very much easier to learn than others, and of course our genes themselves are not learned. But the point remains that genes themselves are not cognitive capacities, and that anything worth calling a cognitive capacity will depend to some degree on learning and so not be innate.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
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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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I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.
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Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
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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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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
