Quotes About Capability

What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted.

she could kill them in three moves before they stirred in their comfortably padded chairs. It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

Non conta la consapevolezza che non dovrebbe, che non lo farebbe mai. Ciò che importa è che potrebbe farlo, se volesse. Il potere di fare del male è uno stato di benessere. ... Pagina 105

Let the path be open to talent.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed the faculties of his mind that he may acquire anything he wants, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, would be to be a god.

success in any field—be it sports, the arts, business, science, and certainly the military—requires both confidence AND competence.

Previously, it hqd brought her the names of famous men who had discovered things. She would bite her nails as she listened, telling herself that if she were a man she would be able to do likewise. Obscurity, she felt that these discoverers had no greater talent for discovery than she, only that they were men. Yes, a man could do things a woman could not simply because he was a man. He was not more able, but he was male, and masculinity in itself was one of the preconditions for discovery.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

God does not begin by asking our ability, but more of our availability. When we prove our dependability, He will in crease our capability.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Listen, I speak from experience when I say . . . just because some man doesn't have one does not necessarily mean that he can't be one.

In fact, the assumption that smartness is something you "have" had led to such nonsensical terms as over-and underachievers.

Armies, like human beings, are not capable of what is not in them.

It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.