I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me

Your species. You have a terrific capacity for effing things up. For hurting one another. For making the world a worse place. But then you invent something like ice cream. That makes up for a lot. Makes you worth rooting for.

I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.

“I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I’m trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.”

Our talent for division, for seeing the parts, is of staggering importance – second only to our capacity to transcend it, in order to see the whole. These gifts of the left hemisphere have helped us achieve nothing less than civilisation itself, with all that that means. Even if we could abandon them, which of course we can’t, we would be fools to do so, and would come off infinitely the poorer. There are siren voices that call us to do exactly that, certainly to abandon clarity and precision (which, in any case, importantly depend on both hemispheres), and I want to emphasise that I am passionately opposed to them. We need the ability to make fine discriminations, and to use reason appropriately. But these contributions need to be made in the service of something else, that only the right hemisphere can bring. Alone they are destructive. And right now they may be bringing us close to forfeiting the civilisation they helped to create.

If a neuropsychologist had to choose three things to characterise most clearly the functional contribution of the right hemisphere, they would most probably be the capacity to read the human face, the capacity to sustain vigilant attention, and the capacity to empathise.

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it,

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

Literature is a celebration of the human spirit, a testament to our capacity for creativity and empathy

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received

True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

But what stands out in Japanese history, as well as in today’s Japanese management behavior, is the capacity for making 180-degree turns – that is, for reaching radical and highly controversial decisions.

An organization which just perpetuates today’s level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

Our Lord wanted us to be Christ-like. Christ-like doesn’t mean not having faults. It means that you do actually have a capacity to draw out the good that is in others.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.

You have greatness within you. You can do more than you can ever begin to imagine.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%

A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity

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

Human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach

Only cowards insult dying majesty

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I’m not an actor who can just play the kid.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth

Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.