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Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.
A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.
The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.
If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.
Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.
If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.
The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.
No country in the post-colonial era has thrived without first building its capacity to conduct scientific research.
Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.
The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
And over time, I think, as Iraqi security capacity builds, you'll see American and coalition presence there decline.
Busquets reads everything. Players like Busquets or Xabi Alonso in midfield have the capacity to read the whole game.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.
The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.
I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.
For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.
What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
I go to ComicCon every year, but it's in a work capacity. I'm a legitimate fan of comics, and I have been since I was 5.
100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
There is always pressure in all matches in the World Cup. This is when you must go beyond your capacity as a competitor.
Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.
There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.