(609 quotes found)
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
Lewis Thomas
“Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.”
David Leavitt
“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”
Wilhelm Reich
“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
Umberto Eco
“The stronger a person's "I" is, the smaller his capacity to become one with anybody. The "I" is a wall in between; it proclaims itself. Its proclaimation is : "You are you and I am I. There is a distance between the two." Then no matter how much "I" love you, "I" may embrace you to my bosom, still we are two. No matter how closely we meet, still there is a gap in between - I am me and you are you. That is why even the most intimate experiences fail to bring people close. Bodies sit close to each other but the persons remain far away. As long as there is the "I" inside the sense of "the other" cannot be destroyed.Sartre has made a wonderful statement: "The other is hell." But he didn't explain why the other is "the other." The other is "the other" because I am "I". And as long as I am "I," the world around is "the other" - separate and apart. And as long as there is separateness there can be no experience of love.”
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
“To David Sarnoff, the creator of NBC, the word 'visionary' meant a capacity to see into tomorrow and make it work.”
Newt Gingrich
“Activity of the nervous system improves the capacity for activity, just as exercising a muscle makes it stronger.”
Dr. Ralph Gerard
“The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;”
Guillaume Thomas Raynal
“Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.”
Charles Stanley
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