Capacity building Quotes
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle
Check the position of your capacity gauge, before tackling any challenge as it may take more or less than you 'have'
William Maphoto
If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us
Nena O'Neil
Analysts are great at providing data and information that the average buy-side shop doesn't have the capacity to get on their own. But no one on the buy side was ever under the illusion that these people were objective.
Angela Kohler
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary
Reinhold Niebuhr
We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
Ronald Reagan
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...
Dean Gordon Brown
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Animals behave in set patterns, which is why we are able to hunt and kill them. Only man has the capacity to consciously alter his behavior, to improvise and overcome the weight of routine and habit.
Robert Greene
