Capacity Quotes
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Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.
Ken Robinson -
Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
Brian Tracy
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Our capacity to compete in a knowledge-based economy is going to depend on our ability to offer the opportunity of college success to every student who's willing to work to achieve it.
Gaston Caperton -
If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for.
Vaclav Havel -
For godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God, but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you; not self-righteousness, but Christ-righteousness; the righteousness which is by faith
W. Ian Thomas -
The contents of the glass don’t matter; what’s more important is to realize there’s a pitcher of water nearby. In other words, we have the capacity to refill the glass, or to change our outlook.
Shawn Achor -
I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.
Joe Sacco -
In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are.
Colin Gunton
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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
Jane Austen -
There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Our borrowing capacity has been completely exhausted. We have no more assets to pledge.
Ed Bastian -
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
William Trevor -
History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
Chalmers Johnson -
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.
Warren G. Bennis
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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.
Andrew Thomas -
Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.
William J. Mitchell -
I am privileged to be able to work for the people of Hawaii in whatever capacity.
Tulsi Gabbard -
The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.
William Howard Taft -
To cope with this difficulty of limited capacity, even a mechanical recognition system must have some way to select portions of the incoming information for detailed analysis.
Ulric Neisser -
Not what you do but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.
Mary Elizabeth Lease
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There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.
Sufjan Stevens -
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno -
Trust in your own untried capacity.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through.
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