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Quotes About Capacity

There is a concept in cognitive psychology called the channel capacity, which refers to the amount of space in our brain for certain kinds of information.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
If you plug in the neocortex ratio for Homo sapiens, you get a group estimate of 147.8-or roughly 150. The figure 150 seems to represent the maximum number of individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who they are and how they relate to us.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
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~ Malcolm Gladwell
The capacity to solve Life's problems is based on our abilities to learn to think above and not below the problems.
~ Auliq Ice
The magic of you is in your capacity to shape change.
~ Julian Pencilliah
All God made creatures have equal potential to grow and succeed in their own capacity. They just need the right guidance and the space to perform!!!
~ Santosh Adbhut Kumar
The more you worry about your spending, the less you focus on increasing your capacity.
~ Sola Kosoko
Success is the understanding, release and maximization of capacity.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.
~ Simone Weil
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.
~ Sigmund Freud
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
~ Anais Nin
In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Despite the fact that God lives in every soul, that every soul has the capacity to accumulate what is eternal and good, as a mass people can do nothing but destroy. For they have come together not in the name of an ideal, but simply for the sake of a material notion.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Despite the fact that God lives in every soul, that every soul has the capacity to accumulate what is eternal and good, as a mass people can do nothing but destroy. For they have come together not in the name of an ideal, but simply for the sake of a material notion. Mankind has hurried to protect the body (perhaps on the strength of that natural and unconscious gesture which served as the beginning of what is called progress) and has given no thought to protecting the soul.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
I believe they taught me as much about the infinite capacity of things to be surprising—and a great deal about the power of beauty.
~ Andrew Motion
Evangelism is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end: restoring the image bearers' capacity for relationship and worship, where the true Creator God is named, known and blessed.
~ Andy Crouch
I want to suggest a pretty radical idea about what family is for. Family is about the forming of persons. Being a person is a gift, like life itself—we are born as human beings made in the image of God. But while in one sense a person is simply what we are as human beings, we are also able to become—to grow in capacities that are only potentially present within us at first. Family shapes us in countless ways. But I want to
~ Andy Crouch
When we try to establish justice apart from worship of the true God, at best we will, as Jayakumar reminded me, simply replace one set of god players with another. What will never be addressed by these thin, secular conceptions of justice is the heart of the biblical understanding of justice: the restoration of the human capacity to bear the image in all its fullness.
~ Andy Crouch
True genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in some particular direction.
~ Samuel Johnson
Largeness; greatness. Men should learn how severe a thing the true inquisition of nature is, and accustom themselves, by the light of particulars, to enlarge their minds to the amplitude of the world, and not reduce the world to the narrowness of their minds.Bacon.3. Capacity.
~ Samuel Johnson
The experience of shame may tend to lend legitimacy to the structure of authority that occasions it, for the majesty of judgment is affirmed in its very capacity to injure.
~ Sandra Lee Bartky
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our dependence on smell is revealed every time we have a cold; once the nose becomes stuffed up, we lose the capacity to taste anything, simply because we cannot smell it.
~ John A. McDougall
Our capacity for self-delusion appears almost infinite.
~ John Baxter