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Capacities Quotes (page 19)

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. Aldous Huxley
Jonathan Franzen quote: "I admire your capacity for admiring."
I admire your capacity for admiring. Jonathan Franzen
True enduring happiness with the accompanying strength, courage, and capacity to overcome the most challenging difficulties comes from a life centered in Jesus Christ. Richard G. Scott
There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness. Aristotle
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley quote: "A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study..."
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but... David Foster Wallace
...but there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region in a skull box whose capacity was no greater than that of great apes. Loren Eiseley
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work. Arthur Conan Doyle
When a man comes under the blood of Christ, his whole capacity as a man is refashioned. His soul is saved, yes, but so are his mind and his body. True spirituality means the lordship of Christ over the total man. Francis Schaeffer
Henry Rollins quote: "Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach...."
Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch. Henry Rollins
As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will never understand those who do battle against us, or how we are perceived by them, or finally those who do battle for us and how we should respond to it all. We will never discover who we are. We will fail to confront the capacity we all have for violence. Chris Hedges
Contrary to what most people think, making a decision is one of the easiest decisions in the world, as is more than proved by the fact that we make decision upon decision throughout the day, there, however, we run straight into the heart of the matter, for these decisions always come to us afterward with their particular little problems, or, to make ourselves quite clear, with their rough edges needing to be smoothed, the first of these problems being our capacity for sticking to a decision... Jose Saramago
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. Hannah Arendt
Socrates quote: "The secret to happiness, you see, is not in gaining more, but..."
The secret to happiness, you see, is not in gaining more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less... Socrates
Thomas Hardy quote: "Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity"
Love, though added emotion, is substracted capacity Thomas Hardy

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