#capacity

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#had #happier #men #same #silent

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#become #capacity #emotionally #endless #exist

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#capacity #concentrate #focus #good #performance

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#cannot #capacity #energy #enough #even

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#capacity #crimes #extent #forces #nato

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#bottom line #capacity #deliver #deny #destruction

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#capacity #educational #himself #his #less

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. ↗

— George Gissing

#because #better #better things #capacity #individuals

So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#ask #been #capacity #either #exhausts

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#back #biologists #capacity #collective #evolutionary