Capacity Quotes - Page 40

• I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Female, Answers, Mr Spock

  "Star Trek: This Side of Paradise". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• I immensely enjoy any experience directing. I've never hated it, and I've had bad experiences. At the end of the day, I just feel like I'm supposed to be on a set. I'm supposed to be working with creative people. I'm supposed to be working with actors and I'm supposed to be manning a project in this capacity. It's interesting.

  Christine Swanson

  People, Interesting, Creative

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

  Jeff Cooper

  Writing, School, Nyu

  Source: blog.traderslibrary.com

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• It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

  Nora Ephron

  Running, People, Infinite

  Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.64, Melville House

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• If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.

  Robert Greene

  Reality, Games, Mind

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a lothario, but at the same time, he's genuine. He's far more loving and kind than I could ever be. As selfish as he is, he is an extremely giving person. He's just 100 percent in every direction.

  Jake Busey

  Father, Selfish, Heart

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.

  Edd Doerr

  Religious, Light, Government

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• If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

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• The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Self, Deception, Mind

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• the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

  Anne Truitt

  Work, Creativity, Artist

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook, Turn, Prospect: The Journey of an Artist”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

  Smiley Blanton

  Destiny, Succeed, Doe

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• It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

  Jennifer Stone

  Humans, Human Beings

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• The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Grief, Emotional, Events

  “I Have No Sympathy.” by Jenny Trout, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2014.

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• The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.

  James Hollis

  Responsibility, Forever, Growth

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.7, Inner City Books

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• Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.

  Lester Levenson

  Capacity To Love, Equal

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• I began by asking myself, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was happiness. Investigating further, I went into the moment when I was feeling happiest. I discovered something which to me was startling at the time. It was when I was loving that I was happiest. That happiness equated to my capacity to love rather than to being loved. That was a starting point.

  Lester Levenson

  Capacity To Love, Feelings, Asking

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• Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Reflection, Evil

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• The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

  Jane Fonda

  People, Persevere, Young

  "Fostering Success" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2009.

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• There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Action

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• Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.

  Bill Vaughan

  Memories, Technology, Leader

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• I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

  Alicia Keys

  Wings, Giving, Different

  "Soul sister number one" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

  Tony Wagner

  Communication, Thinking, Skills

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• Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.

  William H. McMaster

  Giving, Advice, Trying

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• Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.

  Sophie von La Roche

  Children, May, Dresses

  Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.138, SUNY Press

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• In Hollywood, the ... basic freedom of being able to choose between alternatives is absent. The gifted people who have the capacity for choice cannot exercise it; the executives who technically have the freedom of choice do not actually have it, because they usually lack the knowledge and imagination necessary for making such a choice.

  Hortense Powdermaker

  Exercise, People, Imagination

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