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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000. ↗

— Neville Marriner

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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. ↗

— Albert Pike

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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. ↗

— Walter Scott

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