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Quotes About Capacity

Franke writes, "We do know that Holmes advertised his 'hotel' as a suitable lodging for visitors to the world's fair; that no fewer than fifty persons, reported to the police as missing, were traced to the Castle; and that there their trail ended" (109). Schechter: "No one can say exactly how many fairgoers Holmes lured to the Castle between May and October 1893, though he appears to have filled the place to capacity on most nights
~ Erik Larson
industries' capacity to produce fighter aircraft—Hurricanes and Spitfires—at a rate high enough not just to compensate for the fast-mounting losses but also to increase the overall number of planes available for combat. Fighters alone in no way could win the war
~ Erik Larson
He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and only could be hurt truly by what happened to others. He believed this, wrongly of course since he did not know then how one's capacities can change, nor how the other could change, and it was a comfortable belief.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The way we store energy is through our desires, values, passions, hopes, dreams, and aspirations, and ultimately our greatest capacity for energy storage is through what we love.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Humanity is God's culminating act of creativity, designed with the highest intention to reflect most personally the likeness of God. Ironically, we who were created with the highest intention were also created with the capacity to deny, betray, or demean that intention. Whereas a horse will always live as a horse is intended to live, humans may live inhumane lives.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
She probably doesn't think she can multitask well, but under pressure her bandwidth is enormous.
~ Andrew Mayne
I admire his brains and mental capacity but I decry his judgement
~ Andrew Roberts
Churchill had an extraordinary capacity for alcohol and it rarely affected his judgement.
~ Andrew Roberts
alternatives do exist: equipment capacity, manpower, and inventory can be traded off against each other and then balanced against delivery time.
~ Andrew S. Grove
To use your calendar as a production-planning tool, you must accept responsibility for two things: 1.  You should move toward the active use of your calendar, taking the initiative to fill the holes between the time-critical events with non-time-critical though necessary activities. 2.  You should say "no" at the outset to work beyond your capacity to handle.
~ Andrew S. Grove
But at least you know that alternatives do exist: equipment capacity, manpower, and inventory can be traded off against each other and then balanced against delivery time.
~ Andrew S. Grove
And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
~ Ann Druyan
IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.
~ Charles Murray
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
~ Maimonides
We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security.
~ Paul Hawken
Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
~ Piyush Goyal
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
~ Rick Riordan
Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.
~ Alan Greenspan
My advice would be, as you consider fiscal policies, to keep in mind and look carefully at the impact those policies are likely to have on the economy's productive capacity, on productivity growth, and to the maximum extent possible, choose policies that would improve that long-run growth and productivity outlook.
~ Janet Yellen
I think everyone has leadership inside them, but in different ways.
~ Bruno Fernandes
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
~ Michael Ondaatje
With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.
~ Sam Seder
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.
~ Russell M. Nelson