Quotes About Capability

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

I have not need to promise what I cannot do.

If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate. 

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?

Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I've tried to say, 'Look, we are all crappy superheroes,' because personal computers and mobile phone devices are things that only Bat Man and Mr Fantastic would have owned back in the sixties. We've all got this immense power and we're still sat at home watching pornography and buying scratch cards. We're rubbish, even though we are as gods.

When she was strong, she was unbeatable. When she was strong, she got things done.

She's smart and full of business," she said, "and she sure knows how to get things done. You, though." She nodded. "You a real human being.

I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn't enough for the job. I felt the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn't, what only a few in each century could – whether blessed or cursed in spirit. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else's opinion.

The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should have the opportunity of advancing to the highest development of which he is capable.

I know who I am; I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I am capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.