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Quotes About Capability

I suppose if you're scared enough, you're capable of doing anything.
~ Unknown
Instead, when you take a stand, you are certain of your persistence and continued capability in the face of risks and quandaries.
~ Unknown
people with the highest levels of intelligence (IQ) outperform those with average IQs just 20% of the time, while people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70% of the time.
~ Travis Bradberry
And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.
~ Trevanian
Who must do the harsh things? He who can.
~ Trevanian
I am heartily sorry for it, he being a most capable, obliging man, speaking all the languages of the Levant and excellent English too - might have built the Tower of Babel singlehanded.
~ Patrick O'Brian
They feel that by simply being issued the special gear, they are qualified to do the mission. An old instructor said to me, "It takes five minutes to dress like a commando, but years to become one." This attitude of the "the gear makes me" is false. You always make the gear.
~ Unknown
He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dreamed of.
~ Paulo Coelho
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded
~ Paulo Coelho
It's nice to dream that we will have plenty of time in the future to do our travelling and that, one day, we will travel. It cheers us up because we know that we are capable of doing more than we do. Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality.
~ Paulo Coelho
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
~ Pearl Buck
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.
~ Raymond Pettibon
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'
~ Sarah Brightman
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
~ Lou Holtz
What one has to do usually can be done.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
There is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the world around you.
~ Susan Jeffers
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.
~ Ronald Fisher
Every human being has the potential for greatness.
~ Robert Foster Bennett
Regular adult Americans are no more capable of doing math than they are of photosynthesis.
~ Dave Barry
Don't let your mouth write cheques that your talent can't cash.
~ Unknown
Four had never met this man, and did not think himself capable of prophecy, but in a instant he knew Nine was an agent of chaos and would make the difficult work ahead far more so.
~ Dave Eggers