Quotes About Building Capacity

#1. Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Andy Hargreaves

#2. Apparently-according to these posters, at least-only certain hairstyles are allowed to attend board meetings.

Nicola Yoon

#3. But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

John Abizaid

#4. I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.

Kate Winslet

#5. The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.

Adam Smith

#6. We are adults undertaking a team-building activity in a professional capacity, so naturally we spend several minutes horsing around, striking poses with our paintball guns and making sound effects. Joshua and Sergeant Paintball watch us like orderlies at a mental facility.

Sally Thorne

#7. To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

Jalal Talabani

#8. Don't make a slot that let someone new come in and take you'r partner, always love your partner like firs time you met

Ikhsan Baskara

#9. A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between.

Steven F. Hayward

#10. The stage is like a cage of light. People are no longer afraid of you - they are the ones out there in the dark, watching.

Gerard Depardieu

#11. To Jim Duggan, taking a shower is a high risk maneuver.

Bobby Heenan

#12. The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#13. The more people I am able to help, the more people are willing to help others. The more followers we have, the closer we are to a perfect world.

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#14. May the peace of God be with all people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. In a real sense, all of us are "the parents" of all young children - because we help shape the culture and determine its values.

Sydney J. Harris

#16. We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Marilyn Manson

#17. Concrete experiences serve as the primary building blocks from which we extend our capacity for thought and give rise to more abstracted concepts.

We understand the new in terms of the known.

Nick Sousanis

#18. You can consider yourself forewarned that there will be no more Mr. Nice Guy!

Katie Ashley

#19. We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

Salman Khurshid

#20. There should be evidence that there is demand for your ministry that exceeds the capacity of your current geographical location or facilities. If there isn't enough demand for your ministry to fill one building, who are you kidding? There won't be more demand on the other side of town either.

Scott McConnell

#21. Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

Bill Bryson

#22. I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.

Jonathan Evison

#23. Nothing gets transformed in your life until your mind is transformed.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#24. We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check for the company.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#25. First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

Jerry Saltz

#26. An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Brian Tracy

#27. Haiti has changed a lot.

Michel Martelly

#28. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#29. If something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. It is important to work hard towards your chosen path - success is more a function of effort than anything else. A

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam