Quotes About Capacity

At the moment of his awakening at the foot of the bodhi tree, the Buddha declared, How strange—all beings possess the capacity to be awakened, to understand, to love, and to be free, yet they don't know it and they allow themselves to be carried away on the ocean of suffering.

The seed of Buddhahood, the capacity to wake up and understand things as they are, is also present in each of us.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it. All of us have the capacity of transforming neutral feelings into pleasant feelings, very pleasant feelings that can last a long time.

No podrás ayudarla, ni amarla. Tu capacidad de amar a otra persona depende por completo de tu capacidad de amarte a ti mismo, de cuidar de ti.

Incredible how rapidly the best relationship, if it is stressed beyond its capacity, wears thin and finally exhausts itself.

Coercion depends more on the threat of what is yet to come than on damage already done. The pace of diplomacy, not the pace of battle, would govern the action; and while diplomacy may not require that it go slowly, it does require that an impressive unspent capacity for damage be kept in reserve.

the use of statistical process control tools to evaluate variation, correlate root cause, forecast capacity, and anticipate throughput barriers. By measuring incidence of preventable venous

Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity

Limitation of the capacity is never recognized as a loss by the loser therefrom.

And as for the human mind, I deny that it is the same in all men.  I hold that there is every variety of natural capacity from the idiot to Newton and Shakespeare; the mass of mankind, midway between these extremes, being blockheads of different degrees; education leaving them pretty nearly as it found them, with this single difference, that it gives a fixed direction to their stupidity, a sort of incurable wry neck to the thing they call their understanding. 

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

the idea that one can seriously cultivate his own personal freedom merely by discarding inhibitions and obligations, to live in self-centered spontaneity, results in the complete decay of the true self and of its capacity for freedom.

We must return from the desert like Jesus or St. John, with our capacity for feeling expanded and deepened, strengthened against the appeals of falsity, warned against temptation, great, noble and pure.

Our beauty lies in this extended capacity for convolution.

I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

You can do anything, but not everything. - David Allen

We are educating people out of their creative capacities.

El mundo nunca había cambiado tan rápido como ahora. Nuestra mayor esperanza de cara al futuro es desarrollar un nuevo paradigma de la capacidad para llegar a una nueva dimensión de la existencia humana

La tercera limitación está en nuestra escasa comprensión del potencial que tenemos para crecer y cambiar.

Our individual capacity for happiness is partly inherited. It is part of our biological makeup.

Like a lot of common sense, they may seem obvious but they are wrong. The creative capacities of generations of people have been sacrificed needlessly to an academic illusion.

Human lives are organic and cyclical. Different capacities express themselves in

stronger ways at different times in our lives. Because of this, we get multiple opportunities for new growth and development, and multiple opportunities to revitalize latent capacities.