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Quotes About Capability

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?
~ Seth Lloyd
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
~ Anton Chekhov
I'm very good at what I do, and I don't turn my hand to something unless I'm very good at it, frankly.
~ David Bowie
I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.
~ John Rocha
A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
~ Isabel Allende
The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable
~ Jane Campion
I want a man with nuclear power.
~ Carla Bruni
Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.
~ Mike Huckabee
If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!
~ Terry Pratchett
A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.
~ Lenore Skenazy
Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.
~ Bobby Riggs
For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.
~ Rose McIver
I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.
~ Catherine Ashton
Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own.
~ Cher
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment.
~ Frederick Lenz
Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves
~ Phyllis Chesler
I like women who are self-sufficient.
~ Ty Pennington
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
~ Mary Astell
Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.
~ Gertrude Stein
Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.
~ Elizabeth Missing Sewell
That is what I think about women: We can do so much and take care of so much that we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to fully get it all handled.
~ Hilary Duff
Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.
~ Joss Whedon
I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.
~ Mike Colter