#capacities

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ↗

— Albert Pike

#before #brain #capacities #hands #honorable

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#children #education #figure #inclinations #made

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#add #capacities #downsize #fire #hire

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. ↗

— Walter Scott

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Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

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I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. ↗

— Diane Lane

#because #become #becomes #capacities #directors

I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#actor #also #any #approaching #been

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. ↗

— Morris Graves

#changing #direct #evoke #i #language

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#been #call #capacities #drinks #even

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#begin #capacities #compensate #else #forever