Quotes About Capacity

evolutionary naturalism offers an explanation of our knowledge that is seriously inadequate, when applied to the knowledge-generating capacities that we take ourselves to have.

Who can say by what exceeding fine action of fine matter it is that a thought is produced in what we call the mind? And yet that thought, when produced, as I now produce the thought that I am writing, is capable of becoming inmortal, and is the only production of man that has that capacity.

Can't tell, Si. Never had no talent that way.

None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.

In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.

There seems to be endless capacity for strife in your system." "Of course there is. Doesn't that fit human nature?

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

You know what a blivet is? What. A blivet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack.

We are like primitive tribes that have been driven from their culture and have lost their orientation, their identity, their capacity to live.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.

Recent research is showing that chronic powerlessness—poverty—stunts brain development in perhaps permanent ways that undermine not only school performance but also the capacity to contribute to society more generally.

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

So maybe that's what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.

So maybe that's what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was. At any rate, I'm glad she doesn't know about the corpse that's down there in that well. I've spared her that much.

To take expression, to incarnate, to endow a literature with grand and archetypal models — to fill with pride and love the utmost capacity, and to achieve spiritual meanings, and suggest the future — these, and these only, satisfy the soul.

Nature creates similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man's. His gift in seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else. Perhaps there is none of his higher functions in which his memetic faculty does not play a decisive role.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

The greatest gift you were ever given is your imagination. Within it is the capacity to have all your wishes fulfilled. Look around you. Everything that you can experience with your senses was once in someone's imagination.

Every person has the inherent capacity to spark massive changes that can lead to the tranquility, harmony, and peace that are our heritage.

Reason is necessarily presupposed in every revelation. Rev. is the communication of truth to the mind. But the communication of truth supposes the capacity to receive it.

Von Rundstedt) was not a man of great original thought nor an intellect, but never tried to conceal this. On the other hand, he had much commonsense, an ability to see both sides of an argument, and was possessed with clarity of thought, especially when it came to reducing a problem to its fundamental essentials quickly. He also had, at least until his later years, a capacity for hard work. - pg. 309-310