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“We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”

People Knows Humans War Strong Know How Survival Capacity Tragedy Renewal Amazing Things Human Capacity Hidden Strength

Author:Isabel Allende

“What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.”

People Community Ability Honesty Skills Empathy Capacity Sense Of Humor Timing Appreciated

Author:M. Scott Peck

“The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.”

People Given Capacity Faults Caring Greatest Gifts

Author:Barbara Mandrell

“The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.”

People Jobs Grows Sides President Inspire Capacity Obstacles Remove

Author:Vicente Fox

“Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.”

People Moving Social Issues Inspire Revolution Capacity Theater Incredibles Addresses Social Change Social Revolution

Author:Eve Ensler

“Conversations about films are always funny. I would say a majority of people want to talk about what were the more obvious successes; the big box office films. Other people wanting to be more sensitive to you want to talk about the ones that maybe didn't make a lot of money, but they think you might have a special feeling about. And then other people sometimes want to help you by suggesting that you should have done this or that in the movie, that that would have helped you a great deal in whatever capacity.”

“Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.”

People Life Kind Moments Values Term Work Doubt Share Mets Activity Capacity Available Insight Impulse Unexpected Internals Dedication Fierce Angst

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.”

People Want Looks Failure Capacity Aim Mere Strive Expected Selfish Aspiration Old People Doing Good Inadequate

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?”

Source: The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos

“The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.”

People Nations Policy Capacity Claims Usage

Author:Martin Delany

“There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage”

“I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so that they can actually be in a fiduciary capacity where the artist comes first or the client, whoever the client happens to be.”

People Thinking Firsts Self Problem Happens Artist Capacity Greed Clients Fiduciary

Author:Shep Gordon

“If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.”

People Ifs Men Art Stills Important Would Be He Man Activity Speech Art Is Capacity Beast Savages Hostile Wild Beasts

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.”

People Waiting Weakness Capacity Idleness Deceived Harbors Restlessness Weariness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.”

People Thinking World Humans Use Earth Purpose Certain Given Human Beings Forget Capacity Originals Betray Humankind Restraint Arbitrary

Author:Pope John Paul II

“I love to disturb people, because only by disturbing them you can make them think. They have stopped thinking for centuries. Nobody has been there to disturb them. People have been consoling them. I am not going to console anybody... Because the more you console them, the more retarded they remain. Shog them, hit them hard, give them challenge. That challenge will bring their full capacities to the climax.”

People Thinking Love Giving Has Beens Hard Challenges Century Capacity Disturbing Console Retarded Climax Consoling

Book:The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press

Source: The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press

“Until I came to IBM, I probably would have told you that culture was just one among several important elements in any organization's makeup and success - along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like... I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.”

People Important Ends Values Culture Games Business Vision Elements Capacity Aspect Organization Strategy Entrepreneur Marketing Corporations My Time Just One Collectives Makeup Ceo Ibm

Author:Lou Gerstner

“I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.”

People Believe Stills Goodness Capacity I Still Believe

Author:Anne Hathaway

“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”

“In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.”

People Men Real Faces Form Order Lost Strong Taken Trouble Conditions Kings Capacity Casts Islands Tempest Resemblance Real Knowledge

Book:Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

Source: Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works

“If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.”

People Ifs Economy Willing Capacity Difficulty Assuming Convinced Settling Road To Serfdom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.”

People Art Two Turns Space Environment Streets Capacity Surface Sculpture Confined Installation

Author:Mark Jenkins

“Specifically within the AR15 community, gun owners can now make the capacity magazines for themselves and there is no need to serialize them. People don't like to register their firearms any more. They don't trust the government.”

People Needs Government Community Gun Capacity Magazines Owners Register Don't Trust Firearms Gun Owners

Author:Cody Wilson

“Sustainability is an economic state where the demands placed upon the environment by people and commerce can be met without reducing the capacity of the environment to provide for future generations. It can also be expressed in the simple terms of an economic golden rule for the restorative economy: Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, try not to harm life or the environment, make amends if you do.”

“Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year. But the choice involves not the certainty of cancer very soon but an increased probability of cancer at some time in the future. The cancers are no less real; millions will die painfully and prematurely because of what we do to our environment. But the choice is not an easily visualizable one, and our capacity of denial comes strongly into play - as it tends to whenever we must weigh future costs against immediate benefits.”

People Ifs Years Real Play Dies Choices Millions Environment Cost Benefits Capacity Environmental Cancer Certainty Denial Goods Pollution Probability Our Environment

Author:Paul L Wachtel

“If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what [Hillary Clinton] doing.”

People Ifs World Way Trying Persons Country Levels Leader Steps Enemy Stage Military Capacity Increase Clinton Debt World Leader Wedges

Author:Benjamin Carson

“When you walk into the presence of people who calibrate at the very highest energy levels, just being in their energy field, everything that is diseased or in disharmony is healed. When you bring a higher and a more loving energy to the presence of disorder or disharmony or disease, you are really bringing a healing energy. And that's what healing is involved with: It's no longer allowing yourself to wallow around in a process in which you tell yourself that you don't have the capacity to be able to transcend whatever it is that's bothering you or hurting you or killing you.”

“I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.”

People Thinking World Needs Humans Has Beens Use Past Spirituality Lost Planets Capacity Contrary Nuclear Eras Desperate Goddess Bonding Save The Planet

Author:Isabel Allende

“And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?”

People World Want Kind Real Stories Together Belief Religious Capacity Conviction Discussion Masquerade Real Questions

Author:Rob Bell

“Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences”

People Ideas Action Past Novel Capacity Symbols Manipulate Innovative Past Experiences Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.”

“Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.”

People Giving Mean Stills Behinds Christianity Capacity Scare Creeps

Author:Tucker Carlson

“The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.”

People Long Faces Difficult Challenges My Own Powerful Journey Humility Capacity Profound Limitation Limitless

Author:Barack Obama

“We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler.”

People Littles America Courses Wonderful Capacity Mao

Author:Seymour Hersh

“But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.”

“Development requires modification and transformation of the environment... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.”

People Needs Problem Action Support Environment Planets Development Becoming Capacity Destruction Transformation Urgent Degradation Modification Biosphere

Author:Malcolm Fraser

“It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.”

People Can Do Capacity

Author:Kevin James

“Mr. Anwar is a respected colleague and a man of integrity, who in his capacity as finance minister showed strong dedication to enhancing the financial well-being of the Malaysian people.”

People Men Wells Strong Integrity Capacity Financial Finance Well Being Ministers Dedication Colleagues Man Of Integrity

Author:Paul Martin

“We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.”

“We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration.”

People Humans Facts Spiritual Spirit Realizing Challenges Human Beings Race Possibility Areas Capacity Fortunate Human Race Exploration Efficiency Fractions

Book:New Bottles for New Wine: Essays

Source: New Bottles for New Wine: Essays

“The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.”

People Ideas States Bigs Kids Effort Behinds Huge Illusion Capacity Opposites Notion Affair Currents Greek Delusion Living On Old Ideas

Author:James Hillman

“I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.”

People Thinking Different Behavior Capacity Different Things Contradictory

Author:Richard Ayoade

“I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from this sense of character. I get interested in people. And I feel confident in my capacity to absorb and manifest the characteristics of people. I have a real auditory hang-up for dialogue; re-creating the way people talk really is an addiction in my brain.”

People Way Feels Writing Real Character Actors Brain Creating Capacity Addiction Dialogue Characteristics Manifest Hang Ups Auditory

Author:Edward Norton

“I think that when you're depressed, you can't concentrate long enough and well enough to read for the most part; some people can, but by and large people - that's one of the first things that goes, is the capacity to read meaningful literature. With grief, that's not true. For a while you can't read, but then you really are amenable to solace.”

People Thinking Firsts Wells Long Enough Literature Grief Capacity Meaningful Solace Amenable

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.”

People Men Humans Problem Desire Capacity Weak Enormous Invention Devices Machinery Inventor Inertia

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.”

“We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.”

People Care Path Century Becoming Capacity Teeth 21st Century Sparta

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.”

People Real Capacity Tools Valuable Online Stripes Valuable Things Offline

Author:John Collison

“Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.”

Source: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”

People Believe Enough Humanity Compassion Forgiveness Capacity Transformed Linked Wrongdoing

Author:Bell Hooks

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