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Author:John Lewis

“Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.”

Trying Memories Ability Information Capacity Block Distraction Manipulate

Author:Amishi Jha

“To me, what I define as defiance, in some ways, is knowing the "reality" and having the ability to possess a realist mindstate yet still working towards the fantasy and still being childish. While still having the understanding and capacity that would generally inspire pessimism: some sort of more realist perspective that I think most people classify as adult. Anything like that and anything that's sort of fun.”

People Thinking Way Stills Reality Fun Understanding Ability Fantasy Knowing Inspire Perspective Adults Capacity Pessimism Defiance Realist

Author:Alex Ebert

“Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going.”

People Young Hate Ability Capacity Presses Bitter Get Up Keep Going Gave Up

Author:John Lewis

“Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.”

People Heart Helping Ability Focus Meditation Right Now Gains Capacity Access Clarity Relax Open Heart Resourcefulness

Author:Tara Brach

“Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.”

Past Law Universe Can Do Ability Break Capacity Miracle Jew Instance Defined Catholicism Assimilation

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.”

Age Voice Ability Race Quality Leader Four Integrity Evidence Capacity Mark Gender Great Leader Distinctive Ethnicity Exemplary Adaptive

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.”

Culture Ability Fantasy Audience Youth Late Capacity Musical Symbols Immortality Links Sixty Popularity Reminders Artifacts Youth Culture Musical Ability

Author:Jon Landau

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.”

Needs Goal Ability Capacity Stress Setting Settings Upset Pushing Anxious Frustrated Setting Goals Deadline Push Yourself Stimulation

Author:Andrew Bernstein

“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”

Form Ability Wise Capacity Intelligent Intelligence Quickness

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.”

Humans Suffering Ability Animal Conditions Possibility Creatures Capacity Complexity Frustrated Imperatives Tense Foreseeing

Author:John Updike

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, 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.”

Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology

“To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace.”

World Loses Ability Grace Dangerous This World Diversity Capacity Surprise Ridiculous Surrender Exception Tolerate Richness

Author:Tom Robbins

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”

People Freedom Ability Capacity Ability To Change Feeling Stuck

Author:Madeleine Albright

“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.”

Reality Process Ability Information Capacity Stupidity Block Ideology Etc Bigotry Censorship Signals Tunnels Integrating Robotics Transmit Transmission Blockage

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.”

Thinking Men Book Use Light Might Lost Ability Brain Achieve Information Civilization Band Red Capacity Dues Range Perceive Visible Rays Hung Violet Vibrations Supremacy Visible Light

Author:John Wyndham

“Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.”

People Important Sometimes Ability Enemy Our Lives Strange Easier Skills Letting Go Capacity Roots Forgiving Hardest Resentment Coping Strange Things

Book:Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity - suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.”

Heart May Certain Ability Type Capacity Faults Superiors Mediocrity Relentless Dissatisfaction Suggesting

Author:Alain de Botton

“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”

World Inspirational Persons Soul Motivational Success Energy Ability Effort Business Capacity Average Hats Average Person

Author:Andrew Carnegie

“At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.”

Moments Ability Capacity

Book:Divine Comedy (Volume I): Paradise {Illustrated}

Source: Divine Comedy (Volume I): Paradise {Illustrated}

“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

Enough Character Use Purpose Leadership Ability Leader Power Willing Capacity Will Power

Book:Motivation Lombardi Style

Source: Motivation Lombardi Style

“The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations.”

Real Seems Lying Ability Deals Secret Possibility Adventure Capacity Transformation Innovation Noise Abandon Tolerate Ambiguity

Author:William Thompson

“Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.”

Source: Preacher and Prayer

“Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.”

Soul Action Ability Capacity Educational Insight Genuine Discouraging

Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1903-1906

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1903-1906

“Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.”

Dream Ability Inspirational Life Capacity

Author:Peter J. Daniels

“Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.”

Ability Ambition Weakness Capacity Weak Unhappy

Book:A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

Source: A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston

“It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.”

“There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.”

Ifs Needs Giving Mean Hands Today Earth Faces Suffering Ability Poor Poverty Judging Capacity Concerned Police Hunger Flesh Hungry Naked Prisoner Far Away Custody

Author:John F. Kennedy

“There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.”

Way Art Work Ability Talent Capacity Painter Right Way Meaningful Work Printmaking

Author:Winslow Homer

“I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge - knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.”

Giving Would Be Science Sound Ability Perfect Knowledge Doubt Impossible Ignorance Theory Capacity Infinite Method Convinced Certainty Probability Infinite Knowledge

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.”

Humans Doe Art Whole Science Ability Answers Brain Creativity Greater Computer Capacity Compare Calculations Human Brain Art And Science Synthesis

Book:How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“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.”

“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

“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

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