Capacity Quotes - Page 13

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

While we all have a great capacity to love, very few of us will love the proper way.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

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

The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

Your capacity to love is your capacity to experience the I of another.

... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

Within us there is the capacity of being anyone or anything

I discovered that the heart is a breakable thing, but also discovered my capacity to love another person.

I know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization that we are so small, and yet we are so large in our capacity to relate to the beauty of things.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

I think it is one of the capacities of human beings, to create style.

If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.