Capacity Quotes - Page 17

• People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

  William Faulkner

  Strong, Children, Men

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Inspirational, Life, Intelligent

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• Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.

  Tove Jansson

  Running, Grandmother, Weather

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• Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

  Kirk Douglas

  Inspiration, Helping Others, Voice

  Kirk Douglas (2001). “Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.

  Demi Lovato

  Robots, Emotion, Exceptional

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• First become a Zorba, a flower of this earth, and earn the capacity through it to become a Buddha - the flower of the other world. The other world is not away from this world; the other world is not against this world: the other world is hidden in this. This is only a manifestataion of the other, and the other is the unmanifest part of this.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Other Worlds, Experience

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• We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked." (2 Peter2:7.) We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to God's will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Wicked, Quality, Language

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• Don't you know you are the only Jesus many people will ever see? In compromising your lifestyle, you forfeit your capacity to accurately reflect God's image and endanger an entire generation's understanding of Jesus.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, People, Understanding

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• In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Race, Use

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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• The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mind, Swallowing, Action

  "Revolt in 2100" by Robert A. Heinlein, "Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript", 1953.

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• In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious, unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.

  Peter Zumthor

  Memories, Essence, Feelings

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• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  Salman Khurshid

  Country, Exercise, Training

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• I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Economic Models, Understanding

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• The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Rely Upon, Spirit, Greater

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• To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

  M. Scott Peck

  Eye, Responsibility, Discipline

  "The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth".

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• To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance.

  Jack Kornfield

  Joy, Sorrow, Attention

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• A church will never grow beyond its capacity to meet needs.

  Rick Warren

  Church, Needs, Grows

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• Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

  Peter Gallagher

  Inspirational, Parent, Over You

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• Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sunshine, Practice, Sky

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Ambition, Men, Discipline

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• This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Home, Dwelling

  Michael Jackson (2004). “In Sierra Leone”, p.125, Duke University Press

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• Look around you and look at history. You will see the achievements of man’s mind. You will see man’s unlimited potentiality for greatness, and the faculty that makes it possible. You will see that man is not a helpless monster by nature, but he becomes one when he discards that faculty: his mind. And if you ask me, what is greatness? I will answer, it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Men

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• Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Wish, May

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• We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
  sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Understanding, Should, Make Sense

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• Anyone with a normal brain has the capacity to do almost anything, but when one has special gifts or talents (and everyone has) and takes advantage of and develops these talents - that person is likely to excel.

  Benjamin Carson

  Brain, Special, Normal

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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