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Quotes About Capacity

The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.
~ David Lagercrantz
While studying the effects of accumulated stress on the nervous system, I began to suspect that most organisms have an innate capacity to rebound from threatening and stressful events.
~ Peter A. Levine
No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.
~ Seth Berkley
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
~ Dan Barber
That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!
~ Sid Waddell
Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
~ David A. Bednar
Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.
~ Steve Spurrier
In comparison with this big world, the human heart is only a small thing. Though the world is so large, it is utterly unable to satisfy this tiny heart. Our ever-growing soul and its capacities can be satisfied only in the infinite God.
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
The fault in suffering such torment is his, for his heart's boundless capacity to love was given so that he might direct it toward One possessing an infinite undying beauty. By misusing it and spending it on transitory beings, he has done wrong and suffers the punishment for his fault through the pain of separation.
~ Said Nursi
The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God's grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good.
~ Sam Storms
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
~ Samuel Butler
we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do.
~ Samuel Butler
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
You know as well as I do that the heart is a fascinating organ. It's barely as large as a fist and yet it has the capacity to love a hundred people, each one in a different way."-Yvonne Elliot
~ Sandra Steffen
We both expected to become less passionate, to fight more, to take each other for granted as time went on. But we never did. We developed routines and schedules, but we continued to astound each other, and to amaze ourselves with our own ability to love. Neither of us had believed we had it in us, this capacity for rapturous, uncomplicated, unconditional love. As it turned out, we had everything we needed.
~ Sara Gran
Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.
~ Sara Sheridan
Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.
~ Peter Senge
When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.
~ Mark Shields
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
~ Robert Fripp
I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary
~ George Bernard Shaw
. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
To have the capacity for happiness was, presumably, to be able to envisage a future in which happiness could have its place.
~ Marghanita Laski
God has given you your identity, and that cannot be taken away. God has imbued you with infinite potential, and that cannot be taken away. God has provided you with the opportunity to change your thinking in an instant, and that cannot be taken away. God has given you the capacity to love, and that cannot be taken away. God has entrusted you with the power to live in the light of His abundance in any moment, and that cannot be taken away.
~ Marianne Williamson