Capacity Quotes - Page 6

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

Basically, there can only be two answers. One is to overcome separateness and find unity by regression to the state of unity which existed before awareness ever arose, that is, before man was born. The other answer is to be fully born, to develop one's awareness, one's reason, one's capacity to love to such a point that one transcends one's own egocentric involvement, and arrives at a new harmony, at a new oneness with the world.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

All of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives.

Research points to the fact that being born without trauma is the foundation for having an intact capacity to love and trust.

Never underestimate your own capacity to care.

For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.