Jiu-jitsu puts you completely in the moment, where you must have a complete focus on finding a solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build that focus, to increase your awareness, your capacity to solve problems.

— Rickson Gracie

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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.

Building capacity quote Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going.
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

Building capacity quote You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural.

He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.

Building capacity quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.

The five C's of expanding your capacity.

1. Build your confidence. 2. Expand your connections. 3. Improve your competence. 4. Strengthen your character. If character is not strengthening your capacity is weakening. We need to check our leadership for leaks. 5. Increase your commitment.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Building capacity quote If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than
If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.

A traffic jam is a collision between free enterprise and socialism.

Free enterprise produces automobiles faster than socialism can build roads and road capacity.

Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred.

Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

Building capacity quote When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your
When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity for accepting and having compassion for them is there.

If there is genuine potential for growth, build capacity in advance of demand, as a strategy for creating demand. Hold the vision, especially as regards assessing key performance and evaluating whether capacity to meet potential demand is adequate.

I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities.

I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.

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.

Building capacity quote When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.
When you build in silence, people don't know what to attack.

It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

We need to do a lot of restructuring of the existing ports, particularly Durban.

The separation of oversight and regulation from operations in the port, the possibility of bringing in private investors, to put in new investment to build capacity in the port. So, the restructuring of the ports will take place like that.

Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.

Building capacity quote If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.
If you don't build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves.

Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Team learning is the Process of aligning and developing the capacity of a team to create the results its members desire. It builds on the discipline of developing a shared vision. It also builds on personal mastery, for talented teams are made up of talented individuals.

Daily conversations that stretch your previous capacities help build your conversational muscle.

Building capacity quote We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.

The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

People equate job titles to levels of creativity.

We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing to do with human creativity. In fact, we all have enormous creative potential. Even those that often state with authority that "I'm not creative." With a systematic approach to building creative capacity, we all have the opportunity to create and leave a mark on the world.

Building capacity quote The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingnes
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.

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.

One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity by loosening your belt." One study of 30 California counties over several decades found that, for every 10% increase in road capacity, traffic increased by 9% within four years.

So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain.

Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war.

Building capacity quote It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.

The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation.

This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

Building capacity quote When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmill
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

The most important thing is to build local capacity, meaning train local forces, build the local defense institutions, defense ministries, command and control, because, in the long run, it is expected that local forces are stabilizing their own country, fighting terrorism themselves, instead of NATO deploying a large number of combat troops in combat operations.

What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building. As long as we remain in denial about this system, movement building will be impossible. Exposing youth in classrooms to the truth about this system and developing their critical capacities will, I believe, open the door to meaningful engagement and collective, inspired action.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers.

Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances.

She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.