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Quotes About Capacity

Peace is found not in the absence of challenge but in our own capacity to be with hardship without judgment, prejudice, and resistance.
~ bell hooks
Taking responsibility means that we in the face of barriers we still have the capacity to invent our lives, to shape our destinies in ways that maximize our well-being. Every day we practice this shape shifting to cope with realities we cannot easily change.
~ bell hooks
An individual does not need to be a believer in a religion to embrace the idea that there is an animating principle in the self - a life force (some of us call it soul) that when nurtured enhances our capacity to be more fully self-actualized and able to engage in communion with the world around us
~ bell hooks
try to inspire them to consider the power and implications of such potential. I tell them that no computer network on earth can come close to the capacity of the average human brain. This resource that each one of us has is a tremendous gift from God—the most complex organ system in the entire universe.
~ Ben Carson
The soundness of the best investments must rest not upon legal rights or remedies but upon ample financial capacity of the enterprise.
~ Benjamin Graham
Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it necessary.' The optimism we need to prevent ourselves from destroying our own democratic freedoms and, indeed, our own human habitat must be based on reasoned pessimism.
~ Bernard Crick
The war showed conclusively that, by the scientific organization of production, it is possible to keep modern populations in fair comfort on a small part of the working capacity of the modern world.
~ Bertrand Russell
Companies usually are not able to provision accurately the amount of data center capacity that they require, and this problem recurs when they create their own internal cloud infrastructure.
~ Andy Jassy
The reserve strength is very important in assessing a team's ability.
~ Brian Lara
Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
~ Edoardo Ponti
The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.
~ Martin O'Malley
I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.
~ John Berger
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
~ William James
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
~ Pablo Casals
But we all have some largeness in us, don't we, Ana?
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Denying that art is mere expression, the later myth rather relates art to the mind's need or capacity for self-estrangement.
~ Susan Sontag
The legacy from my mother is eighteen things, and the last is the capacity to look at life fresh, to not give up. To tell the truth about our fuckups and our wounds. To let it hurt. To change, to let go, to start over - the willingness to keep starting over, for as long as we have and as long as it takes.
~ Joy Castro
The memory has a marvellous capacity to remember the forgotten, its existence and its stalking, and thus allow us to stay alert when we don't want to forget and forget when we choose to.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Estamos construidos a base de incoherencias, y es nuestra capacidad para convivir con ese material inestable lo que nos permite prosperar.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
the average Neanderthal cranial capacity was greater than that of modern humans.
~ Juan Luis Arsuaga
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands — and then eat just one of the pieces.
~ Judith Viorst
Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
~ Judith Viorst
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.
~ Judith Viorst
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.
~ Julia Child