#capacity

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#going #mind #overboard #requisite

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity. ↗

— Victoria Principal

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I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anywhere #appear #believe #capacity #i

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. ↗

— John Irving

#any #being #being alone #better #capacity

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#pain #strong #worse

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. ↗

— George Santayana

#despise #dignity #himself #his #man

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

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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