Quotes About Capacity

We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs.

I assume that each person contains all the potentials that education wishes to cultivate: insight, capacity for observation and analysis, ability to appreciate, creative energy.

He had a feel for it, the capacity to stir a headful of unrelated facts until they congealed into a pattern arrowing the future. Dutch

The more we open ourselves to love, the larger our capacity for love becomes.

We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memory.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

The power of a free mind consists of trusting your own mind to ask the questions that need to be asked and your own capacity to figure out the strategies you need to get those questions answered. Over time, this requires building communities that make this kind of intellectual and political work possible.

Quizá la mayor facultad que posee nuestra mente sea la capacidad de sobrellevar el dolor.

My point is this. In each of us there is a mind we use for all our waking deeds. But there is another mind as well, a sleeping mind. It is so powerful that the sleeping mind of an eight-year-old can accomplish in one second what the waking minds of seven members of the Arcanum could not in fifteen minutes.

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I have a good memory. That, perhaps more than anything else, sits in the center of what I am. It is the talent upon which so many of my other skills depend.

The information processing model suggests that there is a limit to the amount of focused mental activity we can engage in at one time.

There is no proof that the groups of mankind differ in their innate mental characteristics or intellectual capacity or that there is any connection between the physical and mental characteristics of human beings.

The fifth chapter is about evil, looking skeptically at the view that lack of empathy makes people worse. The final chapter steps back to defend human rationality, arguing that we really do have the capacity to use reasoned deliberation to make it through the world. We live in an age of reason.

For just about any human capacity, you can assess the pros and cons. So let's give empathy the same scrutiny.

ANOTHER MOTIVATION FOR activities such as mountain climbing is curiosity about one's own capacities.

What something has evolved for and what something actually does are two separate things. Once we come to possess a capacity, we can use it for unintended purposes

How is this possible? The answer lies in the human capacity to interpret and respond to experiences. We can be made to feel happy, sad, angry, ashamed, or amused by events in the world, but we can also be made to feel happy, sad, angry, ashamed, or amused by our responses to events in the world.

Our altruism and kindness are grounded in the capacity to imagine the world as others see it. But so is our cruelty and manipulation. Another name for this capacity to suss out the minds of others is "Machiavellian intelligence," and the name captures the dark side of this power.

At the same time, those powerful computers spend 95 percent of their time doing absolutely nothing. Modern personal computers perform very few tasks that use their full capacity for longer than a second or two. Outside these brief bursts of activity, most of the time they do nothing at all, generally while we try to figure out what to make of what just happened or what we want to do next.

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.

One perception of the way he lived his life has always had the capacity to stir up complex things, to make us uneasy, defensive, secretly troubled about our own less glamorous and more sedentary lives. A characteristic Hemingway letter: the streams of loose syntax, the blunt emotion. The way I see all this is that part of what we do in this life is conscious. And the rest of it is unconscious. Maybe this is the best we can ever say.

O coração do homem é minúsculo, mas aspira a coisas imensas. Não é suficientemente grande para o jantar de um cão, mas o mundo inteiro não é suficientemente grande para ele.

I've just begin to realize that the capacity to be interested is a luxury, you know? It gets handed down like property.