#capacities

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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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

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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 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

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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. ↗

— John Haggai

#endeavor #energies #faculties #field #focus

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

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Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. ↗

— Robert South

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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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