Quotes About Capability

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

All the men on my staff can type.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.

Your mistake," Ng says, "is that you think that all mechanically assisted organisms—like me—are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than we were before.

Your mistake, Ng says, is that you think that all mechanically assisted organisms -- like me -- are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than we were before.

Your potential is unlimited in all that you've chosen to do.

That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.

Surely my mother could do anything to which she set her mind

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Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be praised rather than blamed. But when they persist in attempts that are beyond their power, mishaps and blame ensue.

The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him; and when they are capable and faithful he may always be considered wise, because he has known how to recognize the capable and to keep them faithful. But when they are otherwise one cannot form a good opinion of him, for the prime error which he made was in choosing them.

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.

Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do.

I love radio interviews; it's all about multitasking and, like all good women, I can do that.

When one must, one can.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

And I wouldn't take on such a big thing if I didn't think I could nail it.

If you have bad hair and you bite your nails, nobody expects that you can't direct plays.

I know what I'm capable of and I had that chance to show that on the national team, but also, more importantly, the Summer League.