#capacity

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#act #apprehend #apprehended #capacity #distinct

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#even #lung #much #notice #our

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#deal #find #means #only #our

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors. ↗

— Tom Baker

#actor #also #believe #capacity #christianity

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#cinema #physiological

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else. ↗

— Viola Davis

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Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#capacity #deter #forms #massive #must

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. ↗

— George Eliot

#discipline #first #genius #great #little

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement. ↗

— Rene Cassin

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