Capacity Quotes

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.