Best capacity & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.”

Thinking Way Cities Gone New York Directors Authority Capacity Budgets Appropriate Albany

Author:Joe Lhota

“No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our own inner strengths, our resilience and resourcefulness, our capacity to adapt and to rely upon ourselves and our families.”

Thinking Needs Term Industry Safe Capacity Resilience Our Family Rely Inner Strength Occupation Immune Rely Upon Resourcefulness

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.”

Thinking Hands Bigs President Differences Struggle Ordinary Percent Capacity Shoes President Obama Romney

Author:Ken Salazar

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

Thinking Losing Capacity Claims Zionism

Author:A. B. Yehoshua

“One of the most frightening things, I think, is the capacity for retroactive searching, so you can go back in time and trace who someone is in contact with and where they've been.”

Thinking Capacity Contact Frightening Back In Time Go Back In Time

Author:Laura Poitras

“Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.”

Thinking Wells Moments Joy Capacity Melancholy

Author:Stephen Dillane

“I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.”

People Thinking Important Justice Judging Capacity Tests Important Things Fairness Strict

Author:Barack Obama

“The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Mind Looks Lost Wonder Modern Capacity Mysterious Miraculous

Author:Rajneesh

“We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are... That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity... because, if it's true, then we become estranged from all we know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Capacity Guts Discovering Perserverance Promised Land

Author:Steven Pressfield

“I think one of the most important investments an organization like TNC (The Nature Conservancy) can make is in helping build local capacity - supporting the growth of a global network of small community-based entities. Help people who live within critical ecosystems help themselves and their neighbors to design a better future relationship between themselves and their natural resources.”

“A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.”

Thinking Mind May Purpose Plans Theory Capacity Logic Experiments Logical Puzzles Tested Physical Science

Book:Foundations of Logic, 1903-05

Source: Foundations of Logic, 1903-05

“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.”

Thinking Ideas Soul Pain Suffering Turns Passion Awareness Capacity Relation My Soul No Idea Mutual Faculty Sensations My Thoughts My Passion Sensory

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.”

People Thinking Humans Eye Faces Evil My Own Pure Capacity Noble Virtuous Face To Face Frailty Human Frailties Pure Evil

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.”

Thinking Way Ability Numbers Creativity Talent Depends Skills Capacity Including Dry Spells New Ways Technical Skills

Author:Teresa Amabile

“We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.”

Thinking Years Country Used Planets Huge Resources Capacity Threat Incredibles Aids Touched Again And Again Hurricanes Hiv Earthquakes Predicting Tsunami Hiv Aids

Author:Nathan Wolfe

“No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.”

Thinking Men World Giving Firsts Persons Character Values Understanding Dark Common Accepting Opinion Creatures Capacity Rate Casts Contrary Common Sense Leap Proposal Matrimony

Book:Moll Flanders

Source: Moll Flanders

“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Form Choices Belief Sex Term Failing Succeed Members Behavior Normal Capacity Human Behavior Capacity To Love Bisexuality Human Capacity

Author:Margaret Mead

“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.”

Thinking Important Fiction Capacity Important Things Science Fiction

Author:William Gibson

“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Said Important Whole Happens Poor Fiction Records Happened Terrible Capacity Important Things Science Fiction History Of Science

Author:William Gibson

“I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.”

Thinking Men Feels Values Feminism Protect Capacity Empowered Empowering Women Empowered Women Value Systems Bad Woman

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us who have the capacity to fund political elections, it's obvious why the perspective of government is skewed relative to what most Americans care about.”

Thinking Government Care Political Talking Perspective Capacity Election Obvious Spending Tiny Presidential Candidates Fund Relative Fractions Presidential Candidate Political Election

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.”

“We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that capacity to wonder, to question, and to see ourselves in the context of all of life that has preceded the present time, and all that will go off far into the future, one way or another.”

Thinking Way Want Wells Universe Wonder Special Creatures Unique Capacity One Way Present Time

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.”

Thinking Capacity Madness Good Things Stable

Author:Wayne Coyne

“I think its really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so its good to see people in the media representing all of those things.”

People Thinking Feels Media Television Capacity Brilliant Selfish Vain Representing

Author:Kerry Bishe

“Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Giving Feels Heart Book Stories Moving Greater Written Seeing Reader Empathy Capacity Insightful Inches Revealing Darren Justine

Author:Nick Earls

“Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.”

Source: Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”

People Thinking Love Technology Capacity Oppression Adore

Author:Aldous Huxley

“I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.”

Thinking World Humans May Doe Seems Human Beings Race Struggle Capacity Human Race Glorious Changing The World Remarkable Overwhelmed Exhilarating Being Overwhelmed

Book:Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry

Source: Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry

“I would say, if you're a musician then you probably have some capacity and some intuition. You've got to trust that intuition and be true to what compels you. There will be a lot of things along the way that will try to remove you from that, and if you do, then I think you are diminished. If you stay with it, then you have something that's real.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Real Musician Capacity Intuition Being True Remove

Author:Stephan Jenkins

“I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.”

Thinking Imagination Family Capacity Essence Agree Loyalty

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.”

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and think ourselves happy and satisfied; but afterward, when the froth and foam have subsided, we discover that the goblet is not more than half-filled with the golden liquid that was poured into it.”

Thinking Heart Enough Pleasure Half Ambition Capacity Filled Good Things Satisfied Golden Enthusiasm Success In Life Liquid Foam

Book:Goose-quill Papers

Source: Goose-quill Papers

“If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Loses Issues Capacity Substitutes Sentimentality Personalized

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.”

Thinking Important Problem Ability Possibility Communication Skills Capacity Solve Critical Collaboration Academic Critical Thinking New Possibilities

Author:Tony Wagner

“Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.”

Thinking Men Way Trying Mind Our Lives Behavior Capacity Infinite Scripture Arrogant Attempting Omnipotence Amoeba

Book:When God Doesn't Make Sense

Source: When God Doesn't Make Sense

“If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.”

Ifs Thinking World Looks Areas Capacity Lifetime Collapse Ecological Habitat Food Service

Author:Dan Barber

“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.”

Thinking Children Use Brain Taught Capacity Discouraged Daydreaming

Author:Tony Buzan

“I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.”

Thinking Wells Our Lives Capacity Stress Well Being Optimum

Author:Bell Hooks

“Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.”

Thinking Mind Capacity Narrow Minds

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.”

Thinking Capacity

Author:Dolores Hart

“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.”

“Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.”

Thinking Years Two Lasts Space Millions Changed Civilization Capacity Years Ago Intelligent Destructive Signals Dna Jungle Outer Space Likelihood

Author:Stephen Hawking

“... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“I think a state should not be in the capacity of killing anyone with the exception of warfare.”

Thinking Should States Capacity Killing Exception Warfare

Author:Werner Herzog

“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 I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.”

Ifs Thinking Should Important Imagination Audience Capacity What's Important Robbing

Author:Michael Haneke

“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

“You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your own perfectlyfutile opinion. It makes no difference to you or the world what you may think of any work of art. That is not the question; the point is how it affects you. The picture is the judge of your capacity, not you of its excellence; the world has long ago passed its judgment upon it, and now it is for the work to estimate you.”

Thinking World Should Trying May Long Art Form Artist Differences Opinion Judging Judgment Capacity Excellence Works Of Art Museums Long Ago Sculpture Gallery

Author:Anna Brackett

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