#capacity

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. ↗

— William James

#accomplished #accordingly #act #amazed #attitude

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan. ↗

— William Kirby

#big brother #brother #capacity #generous #internally

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#being #belong #capacity #different #far

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#innate #justice #justify #man #name

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him. ↗

— Walter Martin

#capacity #christ #conquest #day #every

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ↗

— Anais Nin

#incapacity #only #to love

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#battle #canada #capacity #could #during

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#going #mind #overboard #requisite

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion. ↗

— David E. Price

#beyond #budget #capacity #challenges #congress