Quotes About Capacity

Wonder, as a point of concern, denies its own consideration. It has the remarkable capacity to hide in the midst of its revelation. Wonder, to preserve itself, withdraws. It withdraws from the mind, from the willing mind, which would make of mystery a category.

For us to close our mind to scientific reasoning without using our best critical thinking is to refuse to use our God-given capacity for understanding.

The church, for far too long, has been more interested in its seating capacity than in its sending capacity.

I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.

Just because you have the ability to do something does not mean that it is well-suited to you.

it's been estimated that the brain has the storage capacity of three million hours of TV shows (7).

The third method of self-distancing, as Julius Caesar and Elmo teach us, is through language. Kross, Ayduk, and others have carried out some fascinating research concluding that "subtle shifts in the language people use to refer to themselves during introspection can influence their capacity to regulate how they think, feel, and behave under stress.

sharp-minded analytic capacities peak in the late morning or around noon

Mastery is a mindset: It requires the capacity to see your abilities not as finite, but as infinitely improvable. Mastery is a pain: It demands effort, grit, and deliberate practice. And mastery is asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

We all want to believe that we can do many things at once and that our attention is infinite, but this is a persistent myth.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.

I have a mean streak and I am capable of cruelty. This does not mean that I am necessarily mean and cruel; instead, it means that I have to be vigilant about my capacity for cruelty and the mean bone in my body.

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

Do we have hospital capacity issues? We do. But the reality is in our state and virtually ever other rural state across America, we have ICU bed issues and hospital capacity issues even when there's not COVID-19.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

it's okay to hold one person in your heart and fall in love with another, that our capacity for love is big enough for both.

High-functioning patients are those who can form relationships, manage adult responsibilities, and have a capacity for self-reflection.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

An intense response to a work will have its roots in the capacities and experiences already present in the personality and mind of the reader.

I don't love you any less, but I can't love you anymore.

The vain arrogance of the literati and the Bohemian artists dismisses the activities of the businessmen as unintellectual money-making. The truth is that the entrepreneurs and promoters display more intellectual faculties and intuition than the average writer and painter. The inferiority of many self-styled intellectuals manifests itself precisely in the fact that they fail to recognize what capacity and reasoning power are required to develop and to operate successfully a business enterprise.

The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.