Quotes About Capacity

The prospective buyer's financial capacity to purchase. The prospective buyer's need for what is being offered for sale. The prospective buyer's motive in making the purchase.

Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules. Add to these tasks the "duty" of attending opera performances

mi heurística me sugiere que cuanto más pagano sea alguien, más brillante es su mente, y mayor capacidad tiene para gestionar matices y ambigüedades.

because it requires a combination of belief, a capacity for delayed gratification

Some professions, such as dentists, consultants, or massage professionals, cannot be scaled: there is a cap on the number of patients or clients you can see in a given period of time.

They haven't the mental equipment for leisure.

It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his emotional capacity.When one is given an anesthetic in preparation for surgery, it is not merely the capacity to experience pain that is suspended; the capacity to experience pleasure goes also - because what is blocked is the capacity to experience *feeling*. The same principle applies to the repression of emotions. Chapter 1: Discovering the Unknown Self, pg. 9, Bantam Edition, 1984

People are vessels, Jeri had said to her. The hold whatever's poured into them.

Appointments? You can't be serious. With all due respect, they have the cognitive capacity of chimpanzees right now.- -And if we want to change that, we will start treating them as human beings, not a mob of apes.-

People are vessels. They hold whatever's poured into them.

testament to the human capacity to adapt (or, less charitably, to our ability to operate in ignorance).

The true problem was not that humankind risked surpassing natural limits, but that our species didn't know how to tap more than a fraction of the energy provided by nature.

I have omitted the numbers to highlight that the basic argument is as simple as it was in Vogt's day. Stay within the limits, and people can develop freely. Go beyond the boundaries—exceed carrying capacity—and trouble will ensue.

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by graduation.

First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for consciousness.

Computers aren't as powerful as most people think; running even a small and rather stupid intern can really bog down a server.)

only peer production has the capacity to extend as far as the Long Tail can go.

As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence.

The danger is not Islam or Christianity or any other religion. It is the human heart—the capacity we all have for evil. All human institutions with a lust for power give their utopian visions divine sanction

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

When we first started growing our employees, I was scared. I would often think, 'If we had more people, what would they do? Is there really enough work?'

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what we were able to do more than anything.