Capacity Quotes
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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
Gertrude Atherton
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To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.
George Stanley
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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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“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”
Ashok K. Banker
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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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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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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
Auguste Renoir
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I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
Bradford Cox
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Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.
Stephen Covey
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Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.
Walter Dill Scott
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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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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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It's nice to be wanted in almost any capacity.
Kevin Costner
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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 think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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Because the challenges will continue to show up in life, but if you have the inner strength - whether that be your faith, your determination or your incredible love for self, for God and for others - then I think you'll have the capacity to live a life that's extremely fulfilled.
Anthony Robbins
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I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
Rene Cassin
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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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Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila’s capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.
Elena Ferrante
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The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
Stephen Lewis
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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
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Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
William McKinley
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The last time I was in Japan as President of Russia was 11 years ago, if memory serves. I later visited in my capacity as Prime Minister.
Vladimir Putin