Quotes with capacity

  • Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  • The thing I love most about acting is that your capacity evolves as you evolve as a human being.
  • Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
  • The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
  • The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
  • Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
  • Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
  • The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
  • That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
  • Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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  • William Hazlitt As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Joseph Stowell As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • George Eliot Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Genius is an infinite capacity for overcoming the opposition of mediocrities.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Pablo Casals I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Anna Lindh This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Winston Churchill True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Cate Blanchett Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Edward Vernon Rickenbacker Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
    Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
    American fighter pilot in WW I (1890 - 1973)
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  • Omar Bradley Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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  • Asa Hutchinson But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Arnold Palmer Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.
    Arnold Palmer
    American golf player (1929 - 2016)
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  • Leo Rosten Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Anna Lindh Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Francoise Sagan Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Simon Sinek Every one of us has the capacity to lead.
    Simon Sinek
    British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant (1973 - )
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