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“You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit”

“In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.”

Art Real Modern Amount Capacity Criticism Critics Instance Nervous Interpretation Works Of Art Refusal Reducing Interpreting Manageable Philistines

Author:Susan Sontag

“Love with no boundaries. Your future depends on your capacity to love.”

Hate Depends Capacity I Hate Boundaries Our Future Hate You Your Future I Hate You No Boundaries Capacity To Love

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.”

Poor Ignorance Capacity Proof Ignorant Defects Attainment

Book:Mental And Scholastic Test

Source: Mental And Scholastic Test

“In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result.”

People Knows Feels Mean Doe Desire Passion Results Activity Letting Go Capacity Tasks Fruit Objectives Indifference Combat Conquest Renounce Renunciation

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something.”

Humans Motivation Human Beings Capacity Determined Underestimate

Author:Edna Adan Ismail

“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.”

Men Believe Doe I Believe Understanding Women Compassion Feminism Capacity Incapable Misandry Man Hating Man Hater Understanding And Compassion

Author:Barbara Jordan

“According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by their advertising. And all this advertising is based on the well-proven theory of the public's pitiable ignorance and gullibility in the vitally important matter of health.”

Wells Important Matter Ignorance Theory Drug Capacity Advertising Firm Cents Proven Earning Prominent Gullibility

Book:The Great American fraud

Source: The Great American fraud

“Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.”

Looks Art Sound Color Shapes Messages Unique Capacity Intuition Translate Facets

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a bag, but their supply of sugar is not the amount in the bag. When you come to a grocer, he has sugar in abundance. But he sees how much money you have brought and gives accordingly. Your currency on this Path is resolution and faith, and you are taught according to your resolution and faith. When you come seeking sugar, they examine your bag to see what its capacity is; then they measure out accordingly.”

Giving Wisdom Path Taught Source Amount Rain Capacity Seasons Seeking Abundance Islamic Bags Resolution Sugar Currency Unlimited Grocers

Author:Rumi

“I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.”

Littles Book Together Produce Proud Capacity Excited Fantastic Editorials

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.”

Mean Moments Process Pay Attention Our Lives Awareness Mindfulness Capacity Pay Attention Present Moment Unfolding Judgmental Sustaining Refining Non Judgmental

Book:Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

Source: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

“Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.”

Strong Community Leadership Creativity Inspire Development Capacity Sustainability Participation Strong Community

Author:Gustav Nossal

“At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write."”

“No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.”

Men Seems Capacity Obvious Bored Boredom Surviving Commonplace Pompous

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.”

“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.”

Inspirational Hands Motivational Walks Responsibility Ethics Capacity Personal Responsibility Hand In Hand Power And Responsibility

Author:J. G. Holland

“The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.”

Trying Self Individual Depends Respect Ethics Capacity Neighbor Self Respect Shortcomings Getting Along

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.”

Feels Women Study Doubt Feminism Capacity Feminist Pursuit No Doubt Womens Rights Trifles Ingenuity Undertakings Women Rights Women Right

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.”

Vision Youth Tomorrow Citizens Capacity Ownership Global Citizen

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd really like to ask our young leaders. We will try as leaders of today to minimise the problems which we will hand over to you. But it is to you. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.”

Thinking World Trying Problem Hands Today Young Asks Leader Vision This World Youth Tomorrow Citizens Capacity Ownership Better Place Global Citizen Young Leaders

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.”

“To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.”

Feelings Social Friendship Capacity Credit Stations True Friend Complacency Social Life

Author:Sarah Ellis

“As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.”

May Art Made Self Inspiration Imagination Greater Advice Example Taught Ambition Capacity

Book:Edward Weston on photography

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.”

Has Beens Given Inspiring Compassion Messages Capacity Importance Generosity Organs Donation Organ Donation

Author:Steven Cojocaru

“...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?”

“It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A stone has no interests because it cannot suffer. The capacity for suffering and enjoyment is, however, not only necessary, but also sufficient for us to say that a being has interests - at an absolute minimum, an interest in not suffering. A mouse, for example, does have an interest in not being kicked along the road because it will suffer if it is.”

Ifs Doe Would Be Suffering Interest Animal Example Capacity Stones Absolutes Liberation Sufficient Enjoyment Nonsense Minimum Mice Animal Liberation

Author:Peter Singer

“Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.”

Should Mind Remember Teaching Intellectual Capacity Endure Intelligence Seats Lecturer

Author:Evan Esar

“Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him.”

Men Liberty Activity Equal Capacity Details Equality Companion Gifted Freedom And Liberty

Book:Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women

Source: Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women

“The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested, and expressed. What the Constitution says is that these judgments are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree, even with the mandate or approval of a majority. Technology expands the capacity to choose; and it denies the potential of this revolution if we assume the Government is best positioned to make these choices for us.”

“To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.”

Able Prove Capacity Surrender Death Penalty Helplessness

Author:Nhat Hanh

“With the gift of the Holy Ghost comes the ability to develop a powerfully sensitive capacity to make the right choices. Cultivate that gift. As the Lord has said, that is accomplished by consistent, righteous living. As you enhance your capacity to sense the direction of that infallible influence, you will avoid disappointment, discouragement, and even tragedy.”

“The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more calm in our relationships. We have a greater capacity to love each other. People want to be around us because our very countenances radiate the influence of the Spirit. We are more godly in our character. As a result, we become increasingly more sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and thus able to comprehend spiritual things more clearly.”

“I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.”

People Literature Ability Fields Capacity Economics Theology Rejects Censorship

Author:William O. Douglas

“The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.”

Inspirational Suffering Can Do Hurt Capacity Increase

Book:When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty

Source: When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty

“To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.”

Ifs Knows Way Kind States Doors Exercise Training Capacity Best Way All Kinds Reaching Introspective

Author:Al Oerter

“The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.”

States Certain United Roles Power United States Gains Capacity Tasks Combination Diminish Geopolitics Arbitration

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on the contrary, he exists only on the products of the industrious class; and that he can consume nothing that has not been taken from the producers.”

Philosophy Political Lost Class Taken Produce Products Capacity Economics Sight Contrary Producers Absolutely Nothing Industrious

Author:Charles Dunoyer

“And it is to these rights - the right of law and order, the right of life, the right of liberty, the right of a job, the right of a home in a decent neighborhood, and the right to an education - it is to these rights that I pledge my life and whatever capacity and ability I have.”

Home Jobs Law Order Work Ability Liberty Rights Capacity Human Rights Decent Neighborhood Pledge Law And Order

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.”

Knows Way Goal Can Do Effort Accepting Lord Achieve Balance Please Capacity Best Way Setting Goals

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.”

Men Law Movement Bird Capacity Instruments Mathematical Aviation Predictions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.”

People Capacity Vote Absolutes Denial Voting Adequate Ohio Right To Vote

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.”

Limits Capacity

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.”

“Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.”

People Should Shows Wise Demand Respect Capacity Superiors Obedience Guidance Free Will Innate Subordinates Show Respect

Book:Conversations with Yogananda

Source: Conversations with Yogananda

“The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity.”

Inspirational Capacity Dialogue Objectivity Touchstones

Book:The structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

“Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.”

Inspirational Wells Whole Attention Our Lives Capacity Capacity To Love Live Free

Author:Jack Kornfield

“We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.”

Real Inspiration Faith Father Jesus Son Weakness Capacity Christian Inspirational

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.”

Giving Inspiration Past Faith Morning Shapes Capacity Empty Christian Inspirational Giving Back Polish Chalice

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.”

Ifs Inspiration Form Spirit Faith Prayer Pure Capacity Catholic Method Oneself Christian Inspirational Receiving Spirit Of God

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

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