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Quotes About Capability

The same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
~ Euripides
To every man according to his ability.
~ Bible
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
~ Martha Grimes
Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.
~ Jinger Heath
They are able because they think they are able.
~ Virgil
One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible.
~ Marie Leneru
The surest sign of fitness is success.
~ Olive Schreiner
He who can does. He who can't, teaches.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
~ Joseph Conrad
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Only an incompetent mind is content to express itself incompetently.
~ J. M. Barker
As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
~ Terence
Easy enough. I was thinking in the neighborhood of five million." She swallowed—hard—the spaghetti she'd wound around her fork. "I don't have that big a bucket, or spend much time in that neighborhood. You make it." "Done." He
~ J.D. Robb
Okay, you shouldn't be able to sit up," Manny muttered. Was he? Oh, hey, check it… And as for the doctor's second dose of surprise? Nice guy, but he was being a dumb-ass human when it came to the feeding thing. With this kind of hunger for that particular female? Tohr was frickin' Superman, capable of bench-pressing a Hummer while he juggled Smart Cars with his free hand.
~ J.R. Ward
After all, a leader should never delegate that which he had not done before and done well.
~ J.R. Ward
Being female was not a disability in any sense of the word. But he had treated it as such, hadn't he. He had decided that because she was not male, in spite of all her qualifications and skills, she couldn't go out into conflict. As if breasts suddenly made shit more dangerous.
~ J.R. Ward
All of the men on my staff can type.
~ Bella Abzug
It's a huge compliment that people continue to cast me in different types of roles believing in me and the fact that I can carry it off.
~ Neha Dhupia
As an actress, I should be able to do all types of roles.
~ Nithya Menen
I want people to believe that I can pull off more than one or two types of genres or characters.
~ Taapsee Pannu
Ultimately, it's your talent that counts.
~ Armaan Malik
We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.
~ Gene Cernan
My experience is, the writer I was when I began was only a fraction of what I feel capable of doing now. Don't stand on that threshold saying, 'I'm uncertain about my talent.' You can grow that part of yourself.
~ Anthony McCarten
She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.
~ Clare Mulley