Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.
One who is mild rather than forceful has greater capacity for outreach.
Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.
One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised this before, that the South African economy has grown at a rate that has overtaken the capacity of the transport system. And therefore, we have said that it is necessary to expand our capacity in the ports.
Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using non-violence because they want desperately to bring about some change. Non-violence in action is a very potent force and it can't be stopped. The people who are struggling have the complete say-so. No man-made law, no human ruler, no army can destroy this. There is no way it can be destroyed. . . And so, if we have the capacity to endure, if we have the patience, things will change.
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.
Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.
Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.
There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real world, from the ugliest to the most beautiful, everything that has character and expression, from the crudest and most brutal to the gentlest and most delicate; everything that speaks to us in its capacity as life.
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.