|
"Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock." »Alvin Toffler
|
|
"Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it." »Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick
|
|
"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency." »Margaret Fuller
|
|
"There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set." »Harriet Van Horne.
|
|
"I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory." »Martin Luther King Jr., A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967
|
|
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones." »Stephen Covey
|
|
"Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities." »Dee W. Hock
|
|
"Morpheus If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain" »Matrix, The
|
|
"Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood." »H. L. Wayland
|
|
"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." »James Madison, (attributed)
|
|
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." »Henry Ford
|
|
"I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner." »James Cash Penney
|
|
"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired." »Titus Maccius Plautus
|
|
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." »Ayn Rand
|
|
"Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined...." »Leo C. Rosten
|
|
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
|
|
"The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine." »George Sand
|
|
"Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation." »Benjamin Disraeli
|
|
"That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy." »Thomas Carlyle
|
|
"The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance." »Pablo Casals
|
|
"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases." »Francois Sagan
|
|
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." »Warren Bennis
|
|
"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." »Shana Alexander
|
|
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
|
|
"Fludity and capacity are business skills - rigidity and limitation are not!" »Chase LeBlanc
|
|
"Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." »Samuel Butler
|
|
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." »H.L. Mencken
|
|
"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." »L. Neil Smith
|
|
"The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." »Stuart Seaton
|
|
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals." »H. L. Mencken
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
