Quotes About Capability

Soothing stories have been plentiful in all ages. . . . To survive, a story must arouse wonder, wonder in both the senses in which we now employ the word: astonishment at the extent of man's capability of good and evil, and speculation as to the sources of that capability.

Can't tell, Si. Never had no talent that way.

Train with decisiveness the task of measuring whether you can do this.

There is no question that there is a capability that the Internet affords us to get a closer look at the customer and to be closer to the customer.

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

There is no reason why women cannot be as good as the men.

I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

In the SAS, if you're not good enough, you're graded out of it.

My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.

I can hold a note, but that's about it.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

It's a misconception that an intelligent person can't act and I want people to discard such notions.

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.

Obviously, the United States military can destroy any of Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could.

No one is mocked with the yearning for that which they have no ability to attain.

talent. Potential. Great potential

I divide officers into four classes: the clever, the lazy, the stupid, and the industrious. The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands, he has the temperament and the requisite nerves to deal with all situations. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy, but whoever is stupid and industrious must be removed immediately.