Quotes About Capacity

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

We receive love . . not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Our minds have a bottleneck in the so-called "working memory" that allows us to keep only a few simple things in them at any one time.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55

La desigualdad conlleva grandes costos de eficiencia porque condiciona el acceso desigual de los agentes económicos a capacidades y oportunidades, y modela reglas del juego e incentivos que se pueden convertir en obstáculo para su participación plena»,

The obstacle: for the improvement of the capacity for experience and use generally involves a decrease in man's power to relate—that power which alone can enable man to live in the spirit.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

We consider that God has created man with a mind capable of instruction, and a faculty which may be enlarged in proportion to the heed and diligence given to the light communicated from heaven to the intellect.

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child; they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love

the critical factor in motivation is not measurement,8 but empowerment: moving decisions to the lowest possible level in an organization while developing the capacity of those people to make decisions wisely.

Trying to force a system to work beyond its capacity invariably causes turbulence and slows things down.

empowerment: moving decisions to the lowest possible level in an organization while developing the capacity of those people to make decisions wisely.

As i was beginning to understand, this kind of love was foreign ground to him. I may add that he never did, as far as I know, accept a suitor.... Sometimes indeed I asked myself whether he lacked the capacity for loving men at all; but I liked him too well to offend him by such a question.

Call it the feeling of love that connects us. Call it the creative force that drives us to transform. Call it our energy. Call it our capacity to give. Call it grace, or even divinity, something that allows for those things to exist within us as individuals and between us each time we connect.

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.

A constant state of low-level dread made people easy to control, because it robbed them of the sense that they could control anything themselves. This was not the sort of anxiety that moved people to action and accomplishment. This was the sort of anxiety that exceeded human capacity.

Conversely, we do not need innumerable friends: according to the anthropologist Robin Dunbar, the human brain can only process approximately 150 interpersonal relations. This is known as Dunbar's number, and it's about the size of a small tribe.

The eudaimonic life, for Aristotle, is one in which we have lived to the fullness of our potential; developed our distinctive capacities to their finest points; and accomplished in the world what we have set out to do.

A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries.