Quotes About Capability

Talent is putting skills into productive use.

Here on her own turf she looked different: more whole and competent; denser somehow.

This hand can birth children. This hand can make music. This hand can kill you.

The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.

We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.

When we continue to do things for our children that they could do for themselves, we are unintentionally robbing them of opportunities to become self-reliant and confident. Doing for our children what they can do for themselves also sends them a negative message either that we think they can't do it, or that they don't have to do it.

had shown that patients who had been paralyzed for twenty years were capable of making late recoveries with brain-stimulating exercises.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

Take it from me—he's got the goods.

The kids seem all right, but the adults. ... I wouldn't want to have to depend on them. Not even for little things.

What do you plan to do that others cannot do better?

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. … The theory of special genius, according to which for instance, it is supposed that a musical genius should be a fool at other subjects, confuses genius with talent. … There are many kinds of talent, but only one kind of genius, and that is able to choose any kind of talent and master it.

How can she learn if you don't give her the chance to experience what she can do?

You will know what to do yourself. Great girl, a stór.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

The opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.

opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.

I imagine I could do anything," I said easily. "If you would ask it of me.

Eso es lo que de verdad distingue a la nobleza: el convencimiento de que pueden hacer cualquier cosa, ya sea teñir pieles, herrar un caballo, manejar un torno de cerámica, arar un campo... Solo necesitan querer hacerlo.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

Si hubiera sido capaz de sonreír, habría sonreído en aquel momento

Suffering doesn't make us weak; it simply exposes the weaknesses that have been there all along. It exposes the delusion of our sovereignty and independent capability.