Quotes About Capacity

It is deeply ironic that while America was hemming and hawing over whether to go metric on account of its shrinking place in world trade, a U.S. innovation sized in customary feet was becoming the most important measure of capacity ever to hit the global market.

Animals are born, are sentient and are mortal. In these things they resemble man. In their superficial anatomy — less in their deep anatomy — in their habits, in their time, in their physical capacities, they differ from man. They are both like and unlike.

My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

It's a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, whole universes, and all contained between the covers of books. In that sense, every library or bookstore is practically infinite.

We naturally associate democracy… with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

We humans are not getting more evil or sinful but are simply getting more competent and efficient at whatever we want to do--including sin as willed violence. And so, we have become, as Genesis 4 warned us inaugurally, steadily or even exponentially better and better at violence. And now, at last, that capacity threatens not just the family or the tribe, but the world and the Earth.

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

I don't think that we should underestimate the capacity of tenderness that poetry opens within us.

In other words, just as the cerebellum had long been known to act as a kind of gyroscope or balancer of gait and movement, he explained, "so does it regulate the speed, capacity, consistency, and appropriateness of cognition and emotional processes.

It follows that most people would very much like science to prove the existence of God but not to take the measure of His capacity.

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

Then Pasquale himself began to be silent, defeated by Lila's capacity to link one thing to another in a chain that tightened around you on all sides.

Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision.

Most of those who came were women, and I was now much criticized, now much praised by opposing groups. At first I was frightened, but Mariarosa interceded with authority and I discovered in myself an unsuspected capacity to summarize disagreement and agreement, choosing in the meantime a role as mediator. I was good at saying in a convincing way: That isn't exactly what I meant.

As a rule, though, never underestimate our capacity not to learn from our mistakes.

Historically, dairy herdsmen have used the pubic hair of cattle as a divination tool to foretell the capacity of a cow to give milk on the basis of the shape of the cow's escutcheon. Perhaps amidst the next generation of tarot decks, the Dairy Cow Escutcheon Tarot will make its debut.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.