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Quotes About Capability

Women can do everything men can do the rest.
~ Russian proverb
I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?
~ Sojourner Truth
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
~ Lena Horne
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
~ Michael Jordan
The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.
~ Patricia Schroeder
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Handle your tools without mittens.
~ Benjamin Franklin
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.
~ Syd Barrett
He that can work is born to be king of something.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
~ Elliott Jaques
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.
~ Michael Faraday
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself
~ Thomas Jefferson
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
~ John Ruskin
For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
~ Rene Descartes
Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.
~ Siobhan Davies
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
~ Cesare Pavese
People know if you've got the goods, if you're easy to work with, and if you can get the job done.
~ Cheyenne Jackson
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.
~ Edna Ferber
Just because it's physically impossible for Steve Buscemi to be in every movie doesn't mean he's not capable of dramatically improving them all.
~ Owen King
I might be six foot six but that doesn't mean I can play a Steve Harmison role and bounce people out.
~ Stuart Broad
I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.
~ Terry O'Quinn