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Quotes About Capacity

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
And as her love revived, so did her capacity for suffering. Life, more important, grew more bitter.
~ E.M. Forster
Pretending to have fun on such a massive scale is just a manifestation of our lost capacity to experience joy.
~ Ece Temelkuran
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
~ Edgard Varese
We [God] charge not any soul save to its capacity.
~ Anonymous
A person's identity is not to be found in behavior...but in the capacity to keep a particular narrative going
~ Anthony Giddens
You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
~ Paul Farmer
If you believe, like I do, that the world is abundant with possibilities, then we need to make sure we build capacity so that everybody is successful or can be successful in the pursuit of their dreams - not the dreams of someone from government, but their own dreams.
~ Jeb Bush
We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.
~ Paul Gillmor
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
~ Bill James
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
~ Cyril Falls
The attacking capacity of a team is the fruit of the work of the manager and of the quality of the players.
~ Maurizio Sarri
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
~ Horace Walpole
What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.
~ Frank Herbert
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
~ Frank Herbert
Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite.
~ Frank Herbert
Life improves the capacity to sustain life [...] Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.
~ Frank Herbert
A typical hard-drive memory capacity these days is 30 gigabytes
~ Frank J. Tipler
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.
~ Franz Kafka
Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.
~ Franz Kafka
Frío y vacío. Siento demasiado los límites de mi capacidad, que, cuando no estoy plenamente concentrado, se estrechan» (30 de agosto de 1914).
~ Franz Kafka
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
~ Walter Martin
If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek