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Quotes About Capacity

his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.
~ Christopher McDougall
Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running.
~ Christopher McDougall
Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.
~ Christopher McDougall
Sabe por qué la gente corre maratones?», le dijo al doctor Bramble. Porque correr se encuentra arraigado en nuestra imaginación colectiva, y nuestra imaginación se halla arraigada en correr. El lenguaje, el arte, la ciencia; los transbordadores espaciales, La noche estrellada de Van Gogh, la cirugía intravascular; todo tiene su origen en nuestra capacidad para correr.
~ Christopher McDougall
Just as a muscle grows tired from exertion, the capacity for self-regulation becomes depleted after it is used. Also like a muscle, the capacity for self-regulation appears to grow stronger through regular exercise (after it recovers from the initial fatigue).
~ Christopher Peterson
A man's got to know his limitations.
~ Clint Eastwood
Maximum mental energy' had never been Kevin's strong point.
~ Colin Dexter
There speaks again the sceptic; but I shall never be so intoxicated as to lose my capacity of observation.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
~ Herbert Simon
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
~ Herman Hesse
LA ENZIMA PRODIGIOSA – LA CLAVE PARA EL CÓDIGO DE LA VIDA Tu cuerpo tiene la gran capacidad milagrosa de curarse a sí mismo. De hecho, tu cuerpo es el único sistema curativo que puede restablecer tu equilibrio cuando te ataca una enfermedad. La medicina puede ayudar a tu cuerpo en caso de emergencia y la cirugía puede ser necesaria en determinadas circunstancias, pero sólo tu cuerpo tiene la capacidad de curarse.
~ Unknown
You have only seen the least of what I can do.
~ Holly Black
You've only seen the least of what I can do.
~ Holly Black
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
~ Unknown
Our survival, our humanity, our worldview and language, our imagination and spirit, our very place in the world depends on our capacity to act for ourselves, to engage in the world and the actions of our colonizers, to face them head on.
~ Unknown
Just assume the human brain has unlimited capacity for memory and processing.
~ Unknown
The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.
~ Lionel Shriver
how curious it was that couples with the largest families were so frequently the very people least capable of supporting them
~ Lionel Shriver
Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity of evil.
~ Lisa Jewell
You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.
~ Karl Rove
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
~ Margot Asquith
China is ready to pursue cooperation of various forms with the U.K. and other countries in international production capacity and equipment manufacturing to synergize our respective strengths and promote each other's development.
~ Xi Jinping
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.
~ Tony Buzan
Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.
~ Jim Talent