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The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
Benjamin E. Mays
Life
Failure
Too Much
Living
Complacency
Too
Our
Ability
Above
Rather
Doing
Tragedy
Often
Little
Capacities
Much
Below
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
Thomas Merton
Our
Must
Make
Enable
Real
Selves
Capacities
Us
Fulfill
Choices
Deepest
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
Success
Attitude
Failure
Business
Mental
Mental Attitude
More
Caused
Than
Capacities
Even
Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
Charles R. Swindoll
Opportunities
Stretched
Our
Alleged
Impossibilities
Capacities
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing
Opportunity
Will
Hundred
Given
Simply
Talents
Blossom
Unexpected
Any
Human
Being
Anywhere
Capacities
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer
Man
Talents
His
Source
Optimal
Child
Unfolding
Capacities
Milieu
Uniqueness
Creativeness
Playground
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
John Hagee
Focus
Endeavor
Field
Rally
Resources
At Least One
Marshal
Faculties
Mastery
Least
Energies
Capacities
Your
Gather
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
Treat
Fire
Add
Programs
Tend
Absorb
Merge
Terminate
Limits
Hire
Shifts
Infinitely
Managers
Capacities
Organizations
Plastic
People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.
Stephen Covey
Work
People
Reflect
Completed
Weaknesses
Delegation
Boss
Both
Because
Without
Personal
Staff
Confined
Capacities
Much
Organizations
Grow
Strengths
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
Tara Brach
Life
Love
Health
Youth
Inevitable
Lost
Sympathy
Our
Our Love
Open
Part
Sorrow
Ready
Losses
Hearts
Anything
Grieve
Loves
Capacities
Depths
Expression
Humanness
I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
Alicia Keys
Myself
Me
Danger
Would
Would-Be
Give
More
Wings
Directions
Feel
Like
Spread
Offer
Person
Different
Different Directions
Capacities
Much
Who
Chance
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda
Wisdom
History
Result
First
Differences
International Relations
Resolve
Relations
Local
Our
Negotiate
Evidence
Diplomatic
Impasse
Examples
Tragic
Human
Whether
Capacities
Communicative
Skillful
Use
Communities
Wars
International
Filled
Human Wisdom
Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
Adam Grant
Emotions
Values
Master
Own
Our
Out
Results
Devastating
Step
Leaders
Rob
Capacities
Us
Reason
Who
The period from conception to two is about the development of a baby's emotional capacities. Mum saying, 'Oh, darling, I love you,' and singing baby songs and pulling faces literally stimulates the synapses in the brain.
Andrea Leadsom
Love
Saying
You
Singing
Baby
Darling
About
Faces
Emotional
Songs
Development
Conception
Period
Stimulates
Brain
Oh
Love You
Literally
Capacities
Mum
Two
Pulling
Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.
Baba Kalyani
Focus
New Things
Our
More
Demand
New
How
Real
How Much
Existing
Going
Capacities
Much
Fulfil
Things
I think I enjoy working obviously as a lead, but also you know I feel I'm also a character actor as well, so I enjoy approaching various projects in all sort of capacities. Any film I have been able to do I feel very fortunate to have been a part of.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Character
You
Approaching
Enjoy
Think
Projects
Character Actor
Able
Various
Lead
Part
Feel
Know
Also
Obviously
Well
Sort
Been
Very
Any
Capacities
Working
Fortunate
Film
Actor
Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.
Daniel Kaluuya
Racism
Worldwide
Alienation
Felt
America
Just
Different
Capacities
By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.
David A. Bednar
Relationship
Together
Marriage
Women
Progress
Men
Men And Women
Design
Distinctive
Divine
Perfection
Toward
Because
Glory
Females
Males
Women Are
Intended
Experiences
Capacities
Perspectives
Unique
Each
Bring
I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.
Diane Lane
Work
Negative
Gun
Become
Sets
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Exactly
Directors
Finite
Week
Know
Because
Becomes
Infinite
Quite
Vibe
After
Capacities
Film
Second
Film Sets
Drag
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
Donald G. Mitchell
You
Fly
College
Own
Sense
Exaggerated
However
Years
Up
Very
Unfortunately
Capacities
Your
Grow
Grow Up
Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.
Donatella Versace
Women
Achieve
Men
Stronger
Think
Sure
Because
Lot
Women Are
So Many Different Things
Different
Cannot
Capacities
Themselves
Should
Many
Different Things
Things
We in Europe have great capacities.
George Papandreou
Great
Capacities
Europe
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
Gerhard Richter
Singing
Sense
Painting
Dancing
Stay
Something
Like
Most
Make
Sure
Still
Very
Human
Capacities
Us
Basic
All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Strong
Passion
Men
Those
Tormented
Able
Drinks
Call
Limited
Were
Been
Them
Capacities
Manufacture
Even
Savages
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Willingness
Rests
Individual
Exchange
Merit
Democratic
Regime
Capacities
Views
Compete
Basis
I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.
Justin Bartha
Time
Theatre
School
College
Kid
Scenes
Had
Studied
New
Learn
Lot
Did
York
Behind
New York
Different
Wanted
While
Capacities
Then
Acting
Acting School
Film
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