I’ve always had to train harder than others to get the oxygen to my muscles because of my lung capacity. I have to push myself past the point of being comfortable.
I’ve always had an appetite for creating in some capacity.
One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence – which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.
The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.
I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.
I knew I’d end up in show business in some capacity, eventually.
For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.
Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person – and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it’s a muscle that can do no more.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
What is occurring on college campuses is about power and control – speech is impeded as a last resort, used when people fail to self-censor in response to a threat of crippling stigma and the destruction of their capacity to earn.
Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
We’re chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they’ll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone.
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.
By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
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.
The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
In a sense, all of us have the capacity to be courageous.
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
You can only do so much in the gym or pool. Seventy per cent of it is physical, but the final 30 per cent is down to the mental capacity to actually control what you can do in competition.
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.
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.
If Hamas continues to threaten the security of the state of Israel, I believe Israel has the ability and the capacity to control the borders and cut off the weapons supply.
As human beings, we aren’t as individual as we’d like to believe we are. And I think that’s what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else’s shoes, and to take someone else’s circumstances personally.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.
My grandmother, Dorothy Walker Bush, worked long, hard hours for the Red Cross during World War II because it was the right thing to do for her community. The example of his parents established my father’s belief that every human has the capacity to serve their fellow man.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
By expanding the legal authority of law enforcement agencies – without addressing the infiltration of white supremacy within law enforcement – we are expanding the capacity of white supremacy itself.
Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.
I have also come to understand Congress’ need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together.
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
That tv box has a tremendous capacity to reach people.
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
I hope people remind me of my accident every day of my life. Because that means I’m a prime example of somebody who had it and lost everything and may not have gotten it back in the same capacity but still reinvented myself.
If, over time, patients don’t go to some services, then progressively they become less viable, so you do arrive at a point where the conclusion is: ‘These are the right services for the future, and this is capacity we don’t need.’
I guess there are people who are like, ‘Here’s one thing, and I’m gonna do it,’ but I can’t. I don’t have the capacity to have that singular focus. I need to try to get a lot of things going ’cause you never know what’s gonna hit.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
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.
Sometimes you look at footballers and think they’re selfish or they don’t bring a good image to society. But sometimes people underestimate footballers and their capacity to have a strong opinion and sympathy for others.
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.
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind’s evolution – comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration – the adolescent gene’s newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.
You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.
