Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.
Organisms [. . . ] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role.
Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.
When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived humanity. These are standards that determine when we consider it appropriate to store beliefs just as a human being, rather than in one's capacity as an expert of one or another sort. Such stored beliefs are to be available for later use in one's own thought or in testimony to others.
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart. . . the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.
I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.
What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.
Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter - evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.