Quotes About Capacity

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

If it's your limit, you can't exceed it. If you exceed it, it's not your limit.

There are limits to the capacity of an individual, and the moment he flatters himself that he can undertake all tasks, God is there to humble his pride.

no one tells you this, how having children multiplies your capacity for suffering.

Pienso que todo ser humano tiene una infinita y callada capacidad para ejercer la violencia, quiéralo o no. Las máscaras ayudan, cubren, tapan, disimulan, pero no la eliminan. Lo que hacen las guerras y las dictaduras es levantar esas máscaras y poner tal virtualidad de manifiesto, permitiendo que aflore en un esplendor desatado; la impunidad lo permite.

Brawn without brains is powerless

All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me.

Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

The normal symbiotic phase marks the all-important phylogenetic capacity of the human being to invest the mother within a vague dual unity that forms the primal soil from which all subsequent human relationships form. The separation-individuation phase is characterized by a steady increase in awareness of the separateness of the self and the "other" which coincides with the origins of a sense of self, of true object relationship, and of awareness of a reality in the outside world.

Yet if we are to take the Lacanian account of singularity seriously, we must admit that what really counts in life is not our ability to evade chaos, but rather our capacity to meet it in such a manner as to not be irrevocably broken or demolished.

On this view, our capacity to mourn—or, more properly, our capacity to not be intimidated by the inevitable prospect of mourning—is what makes satisfaction and enjoyment possible; our happiness cannot be divorced from our understanding of mourning as a process that, paradoxically enough, facilitates, rather than impedes, life.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

But the more I see of the damage simplistic thinking can do, the more I admire and cling to John Keats's notion of "negative capability" which he defined as the capacity to dwell in ambiguity or paradox without any "irritable reaching after fact and reason." To allow room for wonder, speculation, uncertainty.

You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.

A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.