Quotes About Capacity

Television is a dirty business. To survive in it you have to be part weasel, part python, and part wolf. To succeed in it, you have to be 99.9 percent great white shark. The capacity for barefaced lying also comes in handy, particularly if you are freelance.

Achieve complete mastery of his mind by pushing back the limits of his capacity to suffer until those limits disappeared.

In reality, the scenario I've just described could never happen. Perceived effort is essentially the body's resistance to the mind's will. The fitter an athlete becomes, the less resistance the body puts up. Therefore increased physical capacity is always felt.

My own term for a highly developed overall coping capacity in endurance sports is mental fitness.

The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness.

Everyone has a limit - a point at which they can't take any more - and, almost out of nowhere, I had reached mine.

ese era uno de los problemas fundamentales que tienen los humanos con la comprensión numérica: simple y llanamente, su sistema nervioso no está capacitado.

Within the human brain (and only the human brain), there exist specific structures responsible for the generation of our language capacities.

There is an equipotentiality in tissue. A tissue gives the possible beyond its actual structure.

The soul can only blossom forth to its sublime and rare capacities when it feels it is being met with faith.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that.

But she also saw that the Boyds were people whose love came with added sourness—and maybe, as a result, their son had developed the capacity for unspeakable sadness, and who could blame him? Dennis and Jules had both come from families that hadn't really felt good. This they'd shared, and when they'd come together it was to make a home that did feel good, and even sometimes to say: Fuck you, disappointing families.

I didn't think about being king," he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. "Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because you didn't think first, Eugenides, will never cease to amaze me. What do you mean you didn't think about being king? Is Attolia going to marry you and move into my library?

Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!

Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater!

Fundamentalism is disastrously destructive because it is an inhibition of the very human impulse to understand, a closure of the process of education, a betrayal of the capacity that human beings have to think and act together. It is wrong because it tries to stop not just thought, but the society which makes thought possible.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

My belief is that our willingness to undertake the struggle within our damaged natures is the very thing that broadens and deepens our capacity to love. If all conflict is removed, if all suffering is removed, are we not left with sentiment and sensuality?

When providers have to compete on results, the problem of supply-driven demand, in which available capacity leads to care with questionable benefits, will largely disappear.

El valor es la capacidad de satisfacer o rebasar las necesidades de los clientes, y también de hacerlo eficientemente.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.

I have come to realize that much of my success can be attributed to the fact that I believe in the capacity of the people who have worked with me. I truly think that the leader who tries to know it all and tells everyone what to do is doomed to failure.

What good is a dream that doesn't test the mettle of the dreamer? What good is a path that doesn't carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

Research has shown that 150–200 people are the number of people that can be controlled without an organizational hierarchy.23 It is the number of people one can keep track of, maintain a stable social relationship with, and would be willing to help with a favor.