Capacity Quotes - Page 14

[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.

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

With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities.

Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity.

There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

In the corridors of diplomacy people  gradually tend to lose their capacity to distinguish between what is important and what isn't.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.

A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

The capacity of a human community to shape it's future.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers.

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

I've certainly never helped anybody save the day, in any capacity. If anybody is going to understand making a few mistakes, it's me.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.

The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.