#capacity

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

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

— George Santayana

#despise #dignity #himself #his #man

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. ↗

— Alan Watts

#future #living #made #now #plans

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. ↗

— Alan Watts

#aggressive #altering #america #capacity #gone

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#believe #capacity #children #citizens #contribution

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#always #anymore #believe #believed #capacity

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#becomes #burning #capacity #concentrate #depend

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #capacity #granted #human #human beings

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 G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#almost #brazil #capacity #china #earth