Quotes About Capacity

Make yourself a "capacity" and I will make myself a "torrent."

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.

You have to be born with enough brainpower.

You have a great potential.

You can do something, but not everything.

In other words, the capacity to exercise power is always a reflection of one's position in social relations.

Artists operating within the theistic worldview have a solid basis for their work. Nothing is more freeing than for them to realize that because they are like God they can really invent. Artistic inventiveness is a reflection of God's unbounded capacity to create.

A soul--a soul--an immortal soul! Think of its capacity, its duration, its value! Think of the hell it must endure, if impenitent; of the heaven it shall possess, if pardoned. Think of the price laid down by the incarnate Son of God.

Agentic capacity is now seen as differentially distributed across a wider range of ontological types. This

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

However many holes are in you, always there's room for another. However much you carry, you can hold more. "My Corkboard

How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

One way to do that is to be wary of seeing the issue in absolutist terms. Immigration is generally good for America. But that doesn't mean it's good at every level and in all varieties. America's absorptive capacity is great but not unlimited, and not every migrant is as easily absorbed as Rosalie. There's a place for principled compromise. Legal status for the Dreamers is crucial;

One way to do that is to be wary of seeing the issue in absolutist terms. Immigration is generally good for America. But that doesn't mean it's good at every level and in all varieties. America's absorptive capacity is great but not unlimited, and not every migrant is as easily absorbed as Rosalie. There's a place for principled compromise. Legal status for the Dreamers is crucial; the diversity lottery is not.

Just like work expands to fill the time available, work expands to fill the team available.

The right time to hire is when there's more work than you can handle for a sustained period of time.

We don't know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.