Capacity Quotes

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

I think all married couples tend to run things by each other in every capacity and we're not different to them.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.