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I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.
Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
I stood and walked around the desk so I could stand over him. Menacingly. Like Darth Vader, only with better lung capacity.
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
The Xbox is how the computer will be built in the next 20 years. More semiconductor capacity will go to the user experience.
In this business, if you don`t have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
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.
Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.
Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
I don't believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, you're in trouble.
Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.
The human dilemma is that which arises out of a man's capacity to experience himself as both subject and object at the same time.
That which is injurious loses its capacity to harm when it is brought into the light, and we attract to us that which we emanate.
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
You cannot control another human being, and you just have to learn to go with the flow and laugh at yourself, in whatever capacity.
We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.
I obviously work really hard. But I also have the capacity to dream really big and have the discipline to materialize those dreams.
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.
Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.