Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
quote by Alvin Toffler
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
Unlimited Capacity For Love
The ends not in sight, its gone way too far,
This could turn our another unwinning war,
It wasnt inherited, certainly not a joke,
So many human hearts, hanging in hope,
Unlimited capacity for love,
Unlimited capacity for love.
And now I must add another to love in my life,
Its one thing to say, to do is another,
If Im capable of adapting without pressured expense,
In a schizoid society in a classic moral sense,
Unlimited capacity for love,
Umlimited capacity for love.
How young I am now, stop counting the weeks,
Were safe from the vois, where theyre still counting sheep,
Put the phone to the floor, youll hear my heart beat,
Some people get married, but Ill never chat,
Unlimited capacity for love,
Unlimited capacity for love.
The ends not in sight, its gone way too far,
This could turn our another unwinning war,
It wasnt inherited, certainly not a joke,
So many human hearts, hanging in hope,
Unlimited capacity for love. (repeat, fade)
song performed by by Grace Jones
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
quote by James Madison
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
quote by Krishnamurti
Submitted by Catalin Popescu
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
quote by David Sarnoff
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
quote by Charles Horton Cooley
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
quote by Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
quote by Katherine Dunn
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
quote by Stephen Covey
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
quote by Jennifer Aniston
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: "We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory".
Martin Luther King in A Christmas Sermon for Peace, December 24, 1967
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It’s your notion.
Belief in efficacy of a thing
Will not promote or demote
Its efficacy in any manner.
Faith in capacity of a person
Will not increase or decrease
His capacity in any manner.
It is your notion, that’s all.
22.10.2011
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.
quote by H.L. Wayland
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
The death knell
When I lost my capacity to retaliate
I’d feel I found myself in the hell.
When I lost my capacity to hurt myself
I’d feel I ceased to feel the hell.
Then the death bell evokes no fear, nor tears.
14.11.05
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
quote by Shana Alexander
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
quote by Terry Southern
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.
quote by Henry Waxman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
A Circle Within
this afternoon
we see each other
i remember love
but i do not want it
here
i notice you have
gotten too old earlier
that i expected
there must be some
kind of depression
or the hurry which
i think i understand
i remember loving you
once. Yes, just once.
and i understand now
why we never made it
here, or some place else
it is my love
of self that makes me
look younger
i have thrown away hope
from someone
and all these years
i have only relied
on my capacity for
loving myself
my capacity to just
be me, move on, and
expect nothing, no one
is made for me
i am a circle without
an end, without a leak.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 36
Even after falling into mud a jewel retains its costliness, and dust, although it may rise into the sky, is as contemptible as before. Capacity without education is deplorable and education without capacity is thrown away. Ashes are of high origin because the nature of fire is superior, but as they have no value of their own, they are similar to earth and the price of sugar arises not from. the cane but from its own quality.
The land of Canaan having no natural excellence,
The birth of a prophet therein could not enhance its worth.
Display thy virtue if thou hast any, not thy origin.
The rose is the offspring of thorns and Abraham of Azer.