Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see-it is rather a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling breathing and being peace that we can make peace.

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time the greater our capacity for waiting.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed when it is needed.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence his capacity his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create to overcome to endure to transform to love and to be greater than our suffering.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding indeed no fiction.