“Because he treats the world as rather empty and ignores the interrelatedness of all things (so stupefying to thought and action), administrative man can make decisions with relatively simple rules of thumb that do not make impossible demands upon his capacity for thought.” MenWorldActionSimpleDecisionImpossibleDemandCapacityAll ThingsEmptyTreatsThumbsAdministrativeThoughts And ActionsInterrelatedness Author:Herbert Simon
“A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.” ThinkingMindMayIdeasCreativityCreativePlansCapacityEmptyMereExtraordinaryTechniquePhrasesAcquireNew IdeasShallowBe CreativeGadgetsInsufficientExtraordinary ThingsDams Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.” HeartConditionsReadyCapacityEmptyMaximum Author:Meister Eckhart
“Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.” WayShouldDifferentTogetherEternalCapacityEmptyProfoundAwakeningTensionRemarkableCaptureEarnestMockeryDetachedResonanceJestEarnestnessInsipidBrash Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.” MindValuesEmotionEmotionalCapacityEmptyFuelInherentMotor Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.” IfsMindFirstsMovingValuesEmotionalCapacityEmptyMachinesFuelContradictionDriversYou ChooseMotorWrecksTransmission Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.” ThinkingMindSoulPhilosophyCapacityEmptyContemplationStimulusMenaceIncessantFabricationReceptivity Author:Josef Pieper
“The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.” PeopleKnowsWorldProblemJobsChallengesCommonEconomyPolicyChangedTerribleFindingsCapacityConcernEmptyEndlessImmigrationCommon SenseCashContinentsPublic Policy Author:Richard Lamm
“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.” GivingInspirationPastFaithMorningShapesCapacityEmptyChristian InspirationalGiving BackPolishChalice Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.” IfsTryingHumansBodySpiritFoundStrongSecretBearsCircumstancesSurvivalCapacityEmptyConvictionEnormousStomachTestedHuman BodySurvivingUnbearableDeprivationAdjusting Book:Long Walk To Freedom Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think are our enemies - the ones we believe are making our situation worse. When you have shown your capacity for listening and understanding, the other person will begin to listen to you, and you have a change to tell him or her of your pain, and it's your turn to be healed. This is the practice of peace.” PeopleThinkingBelievePersonsPainOrderTurnsUnderstandingSpaceSituationEnemyPracticeListeningEmpathyCapacityEmptyHealedVery Deep Author:Nhat Hanh