Quotes About Capability

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.

proficient.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations." -Elizabeth Bennet

no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

The World is pretty much divided between the weak of mind & the strong- between those who can act & those who cannot, & it is the bounden Duty of the Capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them.

El que está dotado de la capacidad de hacer algo con rapidez, siempre la valora mucho, y en muchos casos sin prestar atención alguna a la imperfección de la ejecución.

I cannot intend anything which it must be so completely beyond my power to command.

Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

For this reason I believe that only humans are capable of true evil—only we can sit down and, in cold blood, work out ways to torture people, to inflict pain. Carefully plan horrific cruelty.

there were many well-qualified but unhappy wives in Cambridge whose individual talents had been totally disregarded, spurned by a system which refused to acknowledge that wives and mothers might be capable of an intellectual identity of their own.

In fact, a true sense of self-worth does not come from being loved, praised, or showered with goodies. It comes from having skills that provide a sense of capability and resilience to handle the ups and downs and disappointments of life.

My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.

Yeah. My skill level is so high I do things I don't even try to do.

If Ranger needed help with the takedown on someone he was personally tracking he wouldn't call me. If you gave Ranger fifteen minutes he could assemble a team that would make the invasion of Kuwait look like a kindergarten exercise. Needless to say, I wasn't at the head of his commando-for-hire list. I wasn't even on the bottom of it.

he'd graduated from Dartmouth, so he couldn't be stupid. Still, she suspected he'd get lost trying to find his way out of a parking lot.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

Trust is a core currency of any relationship. Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. The truth: People are much more capable than we think. A hearty dose of trust is often what's needed to unlock the magic. Go ahead, have faith.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

I love how strong we are, the strength women have is ridiculous. The things we can do are unreal.

The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.

I felt the violence in 'Upgrade' was necessary because I wanted to show what a computer was capable of.

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.