Capacity Quotes - Page 11

• You can rescue yourself. No matter how you feel, no matter what you believe about your worth or your capacity to love and be loved, you can change.

  Geneen Roth

  Monday, Morning, Believe

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• The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Animal, Pandemics, Viruses

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• One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

  Melanie Klein

  Children, Interesting, Adults

  Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell (1987). “Selected Melanie Klein”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Reality, Greater

  "Daniel Barenboim: 'Spaces of dialogue'". "The Frost Interview", www.aljazeera.com. August 04, 2013.

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• If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.

  Josh Kaufman

  Understanding, Principles, Want

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• Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

  Dan Millman

  Sports, Art, Shining

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.165, New World Library

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• I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Wall, Science, Numbers

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Change, Believe, Men

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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• A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

  John Foster Dulles

  Equality, Indispensable, Hold Fast

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• Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God.

  Alice Walker

  God, Faith, Knows

  Alice Walker (1994). “The Complete Stories”

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• Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Solitude, Made, Broads

  Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

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• Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities- the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

  Margaret Mead

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Doors, Needs

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• The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Children, Execution, Overcoming

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• This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

  Paulo Freire

  Advantage, Conditioning, Obvious

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• [Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.

  Paulo Freire

  Greatness, Judging, Dignity

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.53, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Intelligent, Choices, Please

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• Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Lying, Creative, Selfless

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 241), 1986.

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• The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.

  Dalai Lama

  Feelings, Perception, Unhappy

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• The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine...In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Reality, Vision, Roles

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• True love should be transformative; a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that we polish ourselves now can we hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, People, Stronger

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• Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.

  Tara Brach

  Wise, Running, Art

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• Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

  Harry Belafonte

  Inspirational, Change, Power

  FaceBook post by Harry Belafonte from Aug 09, 2012

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• Once you have seen quality horsemanship and are exposed to the things you can do to help a horse be gentle and dependable, then why wouldn't you do those things? No matter what your horse's age, you are going to try to offer him the best that you can. If you adjust what you are doing, he will adjust too; horses have an amazing capacity to make changes. There is always hope.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Quality, Age

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• Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

  John Lennox

  Given, Relationship With God, Rational

  John Lennox (2011). “Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target”, p.28, Lion Books

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