Capacity Quotes
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So if Hillary Clinton is elected president, it will make history in two ways. She'll be the first woman president. And Bill Clinton, he'll be the first man and the first former president to return to the White House in the capacity of spouse.
Terry Gross
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
John Lewis
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Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.
Muhammad Yunus
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... it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
Thomas Hobbes
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big differences for instance between the self-image of the French and the English. And the Germans, in accordance with their rather chequered history, had at least in the past very little capacity for absorbing minorities.
Norbert Elias
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All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.
David Cooperrider
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My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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World language courses are developing students in a capacity in European and Asian languages and this gives them a deeper understanding of not only language, but culture. It brings prosperity and peace to this world.
Gaston Caperton
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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.
Justin Timberlake
NSYNC
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Yoga is your mind control capacity.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.
Theodore Roethke
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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
Gene Sharp
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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.
Elia Kazan
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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
George Bernard Shaw
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Once you have seen quality horsemanship and are exposed to the things you can do to help a horse be gentle and dependable, then why wouldn't you do those things? No matter what your horse's age, you are going to try to offer him the best that you can. If you adjust what you are doing, he will adjust too; horses have an amazing capacity to make changes. There is always hope.
Buck Brannaman
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
George Bernard Shaw
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Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
Ben Bernanke
