#capacity

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ↗

— Anais Nin

#incapacity #only #to love

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ↗

— George Orwell

#atrocities #capacity #committed #disapprove #does

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

#age #capacity #wisdom

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

— Dawn Powell

#going #mind #overboard #requisite

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ↗

— Eddie Rickenbacker

#aviation #capacity #given #impossible #proof

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#anywhere #appear #believe #capacity #i

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#capacity #into #reality #translate #vision

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american president #any #capacity #growth #had