Quotes About Capabilities

I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.

Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.

You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break.

Women are not wrong if they react instinctively – often jealously – against their partner's interest in porn, since pornography is actually, neurologically, a woman's destructive rival for her man's sexual capabilities.

We all have our own loves, insecurities, strengths, weaknesses, and unique capabilities. And we have to take those into account in figuring out where our talents and desires intersect. That intersection is what I call your "blue flame" -- where passion and ability come together. When that blue flame is ignited within a person, it is a powerful force in getting you where you want to be.

We don't know who we can be until we know what we can do.

No sabremos lo que podemos llegar a ser hasta que no sepamos lo que somos capaces de hacer.

Hope is the sum of perceived capabilities to produce routes to desired goals, along with the perceived motivation to use those routes.

Si queremos triunfar, debemos producir lo mejor que nuestras capacidades nos permitan producir: se trata de una labor que requiere trabajo profundo.

It's instead quite natural once you recognize that the power of a general-purpose computer is in the total number of things it enables the user to do, not the total number of things it enables the user to do simultaneously.

DevOps shows how we optimize the IT value stream, converting business needs into capabilities and services that provide value for our customers.

What could the locals gain by setting you up?" I asked Arland. "A war with House Krahr on this planet. Since they're a local House they likely have no idea of our capabilities. They probably want my uncle's cousin's land. Or perhaps they want to claim that I attacked them, so that they can demand financial compensation." He grinned at me. "Either way, it will be exciting.

The chief requirement of the good life', said Michael, 'is that one should have some conception of one's capacities. One must know oneself sufficiently to know what is the next thing. One must study carefully how best to use such strength as one has. ... One must perform the lower act which one can manage and sustain: not the higher act which one bungles.

Un robot es una máquina computerizada que es capaz de realizar un tipo de tareas que son demasiado complejas para cualquier mente viviente aparte de la del hombre, y de unas características que una máquina no-computerizada no es capaz de realizar.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

People talk of the power and capabilities of Sharad Pawar. But except for his home turf Baramati, he has done very little for the development of the state. His vision is limited to Baramati.

In films and TV, actors get chosen based on their capabilities, charisma and the image they carry.

All people have their different capabilities & magically some of them are limitless & incredible.

People don't walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced (it's the job of their competitors to do that), but it would be nice if they did.

There are heroes and, emphatically, heroines enough in this history. Yielding to the temptation to focus on their courage, however, may miss the point. Part of the legacy of people like Ella Baker and Septima Clark is a faith that ordinary people who learn to believe in themselves are capable of extraordinary acts, or better, of acts that seem extraordinary to us precisely because we have such an impoverished sense of the capabilities of ordinary people.

Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.

In short, every child develops in ways that best allow them to compensate for weakness; "a thousand talents and capabilities arise from our feelings of inadequacy," Adler noted.