Quotes About Capability

I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel.

Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.

Sometimes you have to spoon feed filmmakers to let them know 'I am capable of this.'

Just because someone doesn't have a silver spoon in their mouth doesn't mean they can't be highly intelligent.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

People remember my last name because it's different, and people remember me in meetings because I dress differently from other people just because I'm a woman. Those kinds of things give you an opportunity and a spotlight, so use that to your advantage. Use it as a platform to demonstrate your knowledge and your capabilities.

I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but 200, 400, maybe 800. I won't say excel in them, but I'd do pretty good.

Historically, the U.S.'s big launchers fly seldom enough that their costs are dominated by annual upkeep of facilities and staff, not by the actual cost of each launch. The expensive part is maintaining the launch capability, not actually conducting launches.

If you're healthy and you're told that you're capable of playing and the medical staff signs off on it, to me, you play because that's what you are paid to do.

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

Most stuff you can do standing on your head.

The public is going to be looking for examples of immaturity or inexperience or whatever it might be, but I think that's where we have to prove what we're capable of doing from a policy standpoint and from a leadership standpoint.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

The men who succeed are the efficient few.

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

A man's presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. By contrast, a woman's presence... defines what can and cannot be done to her.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.