“President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.” WorldWantShouldYearsSaidWarCountryTurnsPresidentDemocracyAchieveStyleCapacityWesternSecureAspirationRealisticAfghanistanPresident ObamaPoorest Author:David Petraeus
“I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.” YearsSaidCountryRunningWantedFatherPoliticsCapacityYears AgoBreweries Author:Pete Coors
“I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.” IfsShouldSaidAgeYoungNamesWonderYouthCapacityIncreaseAddUnfamiliarParaphraseBeing Old Author:Wolf Kahn
“In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though they were sensual pleasures. This is what Europe offered, or was said to offer.” SaidAmericaPoliticalEnjoyPleasureOffersIntellectualEuropeCapacitySensualStabilityInfantileContinentalSensual Pleasure Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country - or, for that matter, a region - to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food. How can a government, entrusted with the safety and health of its people, conscientiously barter away in the name of an economic idea that people's ability to feed itself? And if people lose their ability to feed themselves, how can they be said to be free?” PeopleIfsSaidIdeasCountryMatterGovernmentNamesLosesAbilityIssuesEconomicProduceCapacitySafetyTradeInternationalRegionsInternational Trade Author:Wendell Berry
“The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.” FeelsChildrenArtSaidHelpingJobsCapacityPoeticWorks Of ArtInvited Author:Elliot W. Eisner
“Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.” PeopleShouldChildrenArtSaidHelpingArtistSubjectsDisciplineAdultsCapacitySacredConvictionInnocenceIrrationalArt EducationBaudelaire Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksSaidImportantWholeHappensPoorFictionRecordsHappenedTerribleCapacityImportant ThingsScience FictionHistory Of Science Author:William Gibson