Quotes About Capability

even though we're not capable of spending a full day in a state of blissful depth, this reality shouldn't reduce the urgency of reducing shallow work, as the typical knowledge workday is more easily fragmented than many suspect.

Better technique trumps more effort.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life." —Maya Angelou

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

Something was seriously wrong with Burnside. Either his mental apparatus wasn't functioning or he was grossly incompetent. Probably both.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)

My momma says we don't need a man to do our chores for us, 'cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara's mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them.

Why Do DevOps? The competitive advantage this capability creates is enormous, enabling faster feature time to market, increased customer satisfaction, market share, employee productivity, and happiness, as well as allowing organizations to win in the marketplace. Why?

No, lack of competence is the enemy of good

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

I account for morality as an accidental capability produced, in its boundless stupidity, by a biological process that is normally opposed to the expression of such a capability.

in other words then, if a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

Besides, if I'd decided to pull Carver's spine out of his body, I would've done it already." "Can you actually do that?" Curran frowned. "I don't know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribs . . . I'll have to try it sometime.

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

Mary did not believe in analysing herself, and she had left vague the notion that sometimes came to her that this anxious unfulfilled sort of loving was the only kind of which she was capable.

Of what value after all is a power which one could never use, or at any rate did not know how to use?

But people who are capable of thinking clearly are in a minority, of course.

It might seem to you, Peter, that a truck driver, one step above an ape in your view, can't remember. But truck drivers can have brains, too.

Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.

Los hombres hacen lo que pueden, las mujeres hacen lo que los hombres no pueden.

Un hombre hace lo que puede, una mujer hace lo que el hombre no puede.

A cada uno le llega el momento de alcanzar su nivel de incompetencia.