Capacity Quotes - Page 12

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

To meditate is to discover new possibilities, to awaken the capacities of us has to live more wisely, more lovingly, more compassionately, and more fully.

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities