Capacity Quotes
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A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.
Edwin H. Friedman
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
William McKinley
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Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.
Brigham Young
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“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”
Ashok K. Banker
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Human societies as temporally and spatially far-flung as the Mesopotamians, Mayans, and Easter Islanders likely came to ruin by expanding beyond the capacity of their environments to sustain them.
William E. Rees
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We are creatures on this planet that have the capacity of self-awareness, playing out our role just the same as all else.
Bryan Kest
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I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
Sigmund Freud
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What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
Dani Rodrik
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I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Anthony Robbins
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
William Godwin
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a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The capacity to create visual effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.
Harrison Ford
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Yes, 'Spider-Man' has had an infinite capacity to trouble and disappoint. But it's also been the greatest triumph of my entire career.
Michael Cohl
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
Shana Alexander
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The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.
Negin Farsad
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If you're curious, if you have a capacity for wonder, if you're alive, you know all that you need to know [about music].
Michael Tilson Thomas
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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
Stephen Lewis
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I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
Ryan Gosling
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I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
Emily Yoffe
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When we got to Steamboat, we were on that big stage at five in the afternoon, and it was almost at capacity. I told my guys 'no matter what we've done to get to this point, no matter what lows, what highs, right now we are here and we've got a point to prove." It was probably one of my most memorable performances thus far.
Cody Johnson
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Our capacity for production and enjoyment is a function, in the last analysis, of our character, our integrity.
Stephen Covey
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
Thomas Keating
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Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Richard Phillips