Quotes of: Human-capacity Keyword

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

Speedboat

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Strangers on a Train

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Warranted Christian Belief

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

A Wreath of Roses

Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

Robert Winston

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

Reclaiming Epicurus

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Michael Nutter

If you live everyday, with the capacity to stretch yourself past limitation and structure, you will find boundless opportunity is all the places that once scared you.

Nikki Rowe

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

Roman Jakobson

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

Seth Lloyd

Your life you are living now is a creation of your mind, but if you search deep down you will discover the capacity to create an even better life ... try it!

Stephen Richards

Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

Tony Buzan

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

Katherine Dunham

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

Kathleen Hanna

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

Kevin Kelly

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

Morris Gleitzman

Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.

Mark Haddon

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.

Michael Bassey Johnson

One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

Melanie Klein