#capacity

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos. ↗

— Jackie Gleason

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So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein. ↗

— Guy Green

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The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. ↗

— William Trevor

#fiction #imagination #indeed #thinking #understanding

So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers. ↗

— Linda Lavin

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It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it. ↗

— Peter Orszag

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In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

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Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. ↗

— Rollo May

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