Capacity Quotes - Page 39

• I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Family, Loyalty, Thinking

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• We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.

  Susan Faludi

  Book, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

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• The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Men, Spheres, Ability

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith (2015). “The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories”, p.20, Broadview Press

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• No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

  John Tillotson

  Strong, Passion, Men

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• Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all.

  Helene Hanff

  Pain, Achievement, Genius

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• I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

  Maria Mitchell

  Perseverance, Ordinary, Extraordinary

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• Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Self, Mind

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

  Anita Brookner

  Children, Growing Up, Passion

  Anita Brookner (2016). “Brief Lives”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Courage, People, Natural

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• Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

  Harriet Lerner

  Joy, May, Pretending

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• if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Business, Thinking, Personality

  Mary Parker Follett (1957). “Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett”

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• Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.

  Freda Adler

  Fashion, Long, Deception

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• The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Education, Children, Home

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Psychics, Healthy, Endurance

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• It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.

  Sally Stanford

  Gynecology, Cash, Firsts

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• Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, Soul, Enchantment

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• No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Heart, Ambition, Thinking

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?

  Sara Jeannette Duncan

  People, Politician, Should

  Sara Jeannette Duncan (2010). “The Imperialist”, p.231, New Canadian Library

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• The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the
  potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is
  capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's
  greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in
  them for little besides ourselves.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Space, Tragedy

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• Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Strength, Time, Selfish

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.213, Tharpa Publications US

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• A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.

  E. M. Delafield

  Children, Ignorance, Imagination

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

  Marijane Meaker

  Confidence, Men, Matter

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• All citizens including women are equally admissible to all public dignities, offices, and employments, according to their capacity, and with no other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Equality, Office, Citizens

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• The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see into more than one world at once, having the capacity to see from more than one point of view at a time. And that is also an Indian way of seeing.

  Judy Grahn

  Sex, Attitude, Gay

  Judy Grahn (1990). “Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds”

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