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Quotes About Capacity

The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.
~ Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Far too much horrific wast of human capacity is disguised as order, predictability, and minimizing uncertainty.
~ Bill Jensen, Future Strong
We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.
~ Bill Jensen, Future Strong
The scientific definition of intelligence is the capacity to overcome obstacles
~ Mark Colenutt
The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.
~ Annabel Lyon, The Sweet Girl
Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
~ Will Tuttle
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.
~ Pierre Levy
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
~ St. Jerome
He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.
~ Noam Chomsky
There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity
~ Piero Scaruffi
I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
~ Alfred N. Whitehead
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
~ R. J. Palacio
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.
~ Michael Cunningham
I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.
~ Jay Weatherill
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released
~ Jean Houston
After all, your head only had so much room in it. No surprise if it overflowed once in a while with little bits of sparkle and electrical fizz.
~ Jean Thompson
In his analysis of the sublime effect, Edmund Burke termed 'horror' the state of mind of a person whose participation in speech is threatened. The power which exceeds the capacity of interlocution resembles night.
~ Jean-Francois Lyotard
She doesn't have the reservoir of space to take anything else into her brain.
~ Jeanine Cummins
The capacity to regulate stress is the elastic that provides safety and gives rise to the ability to be emotionally available and engaged. Stress compromises this ability. The first step in communicating with emotional intelligence is recognizing when stress levels are out of control and returning ourselves and our colleagues or partners, whenever possible, to a relaxed and energized state of awareness.
~ Jeanne Segal
Ionako ne postoji oskudica u osrednjim glavama.
~ Elias Canetti
Man's strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?
~ Elie Wiesel