Quotes About Capacity

parents are the most important influences on children, and that the best way to curb misbehavior is to insist on standards of decency. If we cannot persuade our children that they have the capacity to manage their lives and that the world is worth living in—and then work to create a world in which this is true—medical treatments will expand endlessly but will not be able to help us.

And the strength of love is always misjudged if we evaluate it only by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history. A great, unused capacity for emotion had been lying in wait, and now it raced with outstretched arms towards the first person who seemed to deserve it.

Everyone has the capacity to do terrible things. Put someone in the right situation, then offer the right incentive or trigger the right emotion, and that person will choose wrong over right, even if it goes against their nature.

That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.

The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

LOS ANGELES IS LIKE YOUR BRAIN. YOU ONLY EVER USE 20% OF IT. BUT IMAGINE IF WE USED IT ALL.

We all tried [to be open and free]. I'm not sure the organism is fully capable.

Thus freedom is not just the matter of saying 'Yes' or 'No' to a specific decision: it is the power to mold and create ourselves. Freedom is the capacity, to use Nietzsche's phrase, 'to become what we truly are.'"1 And

people had the ability to hold in their short-term memory seven items, more or less.

The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

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.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.