Quotes About Capacity

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value.

You should be able to do anything a human being can do (from my late father's wisdom).

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

AÅŸk?n baÅŸlang?c? ÅŸükretmektir. Sonras? maÅŸukun kapasitesine, yani faziletine baÄŸl?d?r." (DoÄŸruluk Kitab?)

It may be that poetry's real beauty and elegance is not its finely-chiseled lines or smoothly-rounded ideological concepts at all. The crown of its significance might be––or possibly should be?––its expansive capacity to embrace with equal passion the deadliest failings and the most splendid victories defining human existence.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

I'm ashamed of our human capacity to hurt and maim one another, to desecrate the body. Yet it allows me to see the cabalistic harmony of heart peeking out behind lung, of liver and spleen consulting each other under the dome of the diaphragm -- these things leave me speechless.

I know there are a number of things you know, probably too many things you know--too many, I say, not because any kind of knowledge has the capacity to be bad in itself, but rather because certain kinds of knowledge, particularly those kinds we often describe as arcane, can, by way of their very arcanity, serve to obscure the knowledge-bearer's understanding of the mundane.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

We have limits. There is a finiteness to our time and energy. And to live as though there isn't is destructive as well as delusional. It can be hard to tell the truth about our human capacity and limits because few of us want to accept the losses that come with this truth. We can't say yes to everything. We can't go everywhere and see everyone. We can't have it all. We aren't indispensable. We are finite beings who need rest. And that is not a bad thing.

The receptivity of large masses is very limited. Their capacity to understand things is slight whereas their forgetfulness is great. Given this, effective propaganda must restrict itself to a handful of points, which it repeats as slogans as long as it takes for the dumbest member of the audience to get an idea of what they mean.

Toda propaganda debe ser popular, adoptando su nivel intelectual a la capacidad respectiva del menos inteligente de los individuos a quienes se desee que vaya dirigida. De esta suerte, es menester que la elevación mental sea tanto menor cuanto más grande sea la masa que deba conquistar.

Is a man who deals with the absolute not necessarily claiming to be the thinking organ with the capacity to do so, and thus the absolute himself?

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Dubai Airport will peak at a maximum of 100 million passengers a year, which would limit Emirate's growth, but the new Al Maktoum International with its capacity for another 120 million passengers will allow us to continue growing.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

We all have levels of performance.

Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.