Capacity Quotes
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Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.
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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.
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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.
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I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?
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Collective wisdom is about our capacity to recognize interdependence and to make decisions demonstrating that we have a stake in each other, that we can indeed care for each other and the physical planet we share.
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In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.
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My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
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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.
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Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.
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Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.
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You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.
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You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody close to you die to understand what death is. Definitely, the more you live, the more experiences fall into your spectrum. As a writer, you must have been told: Write about what you know. But Kafka didn't. Gogol didn't. Did Shakespeare write only what he knew? Our own selves are limitless. And our capacity for empathy is giant.
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The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
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A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
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Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."
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Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
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Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.
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I want to return to the NBA this season, and help any team that wants me, in any capacity that they feel that I can help. I'm disappointed.
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A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands.
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The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.
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The capacity for judgment, to make plans, to choose one’s good, is what we share with other persons. It is what makes us persons.
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We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.
