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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
Genius
Uncertain
Hazardous
True
True Genius
Information
Conflicting
Capacity
Evaluation
Resides
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
Future
Made
Living
Valid
Those
Capacity
Plans
Who
Now
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie
Work
World
Few
Energy
Those
Hat
Ability
More
Only
Put
Head
Puts
Takes
Between
Devote
Souls
His
Off
Than
Person
Capacity
Far
Average
Average Person
Who
Stands
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
Barbara Kingsolver
War
Spiritual
Lost
Own
Pain
Every
Else
Someone
Both
Empathy
Understand
Opposite
Won
Capacity
Meaningful
Really
Meanness
Your
The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
Barbara Mandrell
Love
God
Me
People
Gift
Greatest Gift
Caring
Faults
About
Given
Greatest
Them
Capacity
Many
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
Positive
Success
Attitude
Failure
You
Reality
Yourself
Will
Men
Positive Results
Though
Something
More
Results
Feel
Soon
Look
Becomes
Amazed
Accomplished
Accordingly
Conduct
Than
Depends
Capacity
Successful
Act
Enjoying
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.
Ruth St. Denis
Stars
Winds
Songs
Messages
Capacity
Receive
Night
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
Man
Wealth
Think
Capacity
Product
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza
Speak
World
Men
Would
Would-Be
Silent
Had
Same
Happier
Capacity
Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.
Leigh Steinberg
You
Human Being
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Never
Never Underestimate
Underestimate
Another
Same
Human
Being
Shortcomings
Capacity
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
Good
People
Power
Wish
Unlimited
Unlimited Power
Only
Had
Doing
Doing Good
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Might
Capacity
Then
Harm
I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
Brene Brown
World
Think
Our
Worthiness
Willingness
Never
Greater
Vulnerability
Than
Place
Capacity
Means
Engaging
Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?
Robert Kennedy
Wealth
Men
Nation
Automation
Every
Increases
Our
Machines
Tell
Unparalleled
Gives
Make
Industry
Does
Provides
Modern
Wondrous
Where
Information
Poor
Capacity
Meaningful
Us
Production
Displace
Every Nation
Feeling angry is a universal human phenomenon. It is as basic as feeling hungry, lonely, loving, or tired. The capacity to feel angry and to respond in some way to that feeling is in us from birth.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Angry
Tired
Lonely
Feeling
Birth
Way
Respond
Hungry
Some
Feel
Human
Loving
Capacity
Us
Basic
Universal
Phenomenon
In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts
History
People
Gone
Aggressive
Universe
Way
States
About
Had
Nobody
Altering
Known
Than
America
Capacity
United
United States
United States Of America
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Taking
Almost
Taking Things For Granted
Most
Infinite
Human
Human Beings
Capacity
Granted
Beings
Things
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor
Time
Patience
Strange
Waiting
Our
Our Time
Greater
Years
Capacity
Us
Teach
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
Jackie Gleason
Life
Dreams
Creativity
Power
Our
Our Dreams
Dreaming
Spirit
Cosmos
Rather
Partake
Firsthand
Least
Waking
Than
Godhead
Infinite
While
Capacity
Creates
Creations
If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.
Kofi Annan
People
World
Will
Build
Young
Energy
Think
Innovations
Destroy
Jobs
Clean
Clean Energy
Take
New
Come
Economy
New Jobs
Up
Train
Dependent
Happen
Young People
Capacity
Switch
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy
Life
Death
God
Myself
Respect
Intelligence
Gift
Inspire
Beauty
Gave
Back
Tell
Gifts
Spirit
Only
He
Make
Friends
Children
Length
Capacity
Held
Many
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
Vince Lombardi
Character
Achieve
Word
Will
Own
Everyone
Having
Excellence
Magnitude
Perfectly
Blending
Make
Call
Another
Disciplined
Still
Educated
His
Person
Intense
Same
Intense Desire
Just
Different
Capacity
Elements
Desire
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
Nature
Man
Will
Lost
Earth
Destroying
He
Foresee
End
Capacity
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
James Madison
Science
Genius
Mind
Having
Highest
Studies
Female
Female Mind
Been
Erudition
Order
Cannot
Capacity
Doubted
Works
Illustrated
Sufficiently
I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciousness. When you have a group of people that have the intention and the capacity, talent, and intelligence to actualize those intentions, then you have something really powerful.
Jimmy Chin
Positive
You
Change
People
Intelligence
Collective
Important
Group
Believe
Positive Change
Those
Collective Consciousness
Something
Powerful
Talent
Truly
Intention
Intentions
Capacity
Then
Really
Creating
Consciousness
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
Life
Hope
Destination
Sense
Energy
Significant
Fact
Most
Provides
Get
Human
Human Beings
Capacity
Beings
Started
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker
Innovation
Wealth
Resources
Entrepreneurship
New
Instrument
Capacity
Create
Act
Specific
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