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Quotes About Capacity

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Access is something that we all have capacity, in some way or another, to give one another. So whether it's...hey, you know, if I say, Oh, hey, Rochelle, can we talk later tonight instead of tomorrow morning? I had a bad day, or I'm just tired, you could say, Hey, yeah. No problem. That's a form of access, right?
~ Alice Wong
He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.
~ Alison Weir
Aerobic capacity (VO2max) declines. •?Maximal heart rate is reduced. •?The volume of blood pumped with each heartbeat decreases. •?Muscle fibers are lost, resulting in decreased muscle mass and less strength. •?Aerobic enzymes in the muscles become less effective and abundant. •?Blood volume is reduced.
~ Joe Friel
As we get older, aerobic capacity usually decreases, dropping by as much as 1 percent per year after age 25 in sedentary people.
~ Joe Friel
The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. But there is wonder in the attempt, knowing we are all destined to fall short, but forgoing reason and fear time and time again so deliberately.
~ Joe Meno
Spiritual Student! Rejoice as the outer building tumbles down, for the inner Temple is to be revealed. The mind of the individual seeking help is the Christ-mind –awaiting recognition. The man who has his being "in Christ" finds his capacities and abilities in Soul –not in the brain, body, or muscle.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
Intelligens är kapaciteten att förvärva kapacitet.
~ Johan Norberg
Your brain can only produce one or two thoughts" in your conscious mind at once. That's it. "We're very, very single-minded." We have "very limited cognitive capacity." This is because of the "fundamental structure of the brain," and it's not going to change. But rather than acknowledge this, Earl told me, we invented a myth. The myth is that we can actually think about three, five, ten things at the same time.
~ Johann Hari
James thinks we are all living through something like a denial-of-service attack on our minds. "We're that server, and there's all these things trying to grab our attention by throwing information at us…. It undermines our capacity for responding to anything. It leaves us in a state of either distraction, or paralysis.
~ Johann Hari
This showed there's just a maximum limit for how quickly humans can absorb information, and trying to bust through that barrier simply busts your brain's ability to understand it instead.
~ Johann Hari
If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.
~ Dee Hock
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
~ Rene Cassin
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
~ Honore de Balzac
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.
~ James Cash Penney
The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.
~ Alan Keyes
Faith in the Atonement of Jesus Christ will provide strength and capacity needed for a successful life.
~ Richard G. Scott
The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
~ Thomas Keating
The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.
~ Rod Stryker