Quotes About Capability

When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That's where you could really shine if you were really good at it. But then all the Westerns stopped, and I was capable of doing car stunts, motorcycle stunts and high falls. I could do it all.

You know, whatever people say, nothing's going to change it - what I think, what I'm capable of.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.

I think there is only one person who can judge what I can do behind the steering wheel - and that's myself.

Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.

Some women can feel under-qualified due to a general lack of confidence whereas, in fact, they are uniquely qualified.

There were giant scale barriers to becoming a nuclear power, whereas launching a cyberattack requires only some coding capability, a laptop and an Internet connection.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.

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

You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.

I'm competing with myself to outdo previous achievements, but I can't feel any pressure from the fans, the media or the people at all because I know what I'm capable of.

I believe, in my prime, I could have fought with anybody alive.

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

Producing isn't my favourite bit about what I do, but the fact that I know how to do it gives me this sense of power in situations that are super male-dominated.

Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

I don't give a damn what anybody says. I don't think at 70 and 75 that you can be as productive and efficient as you were when you were 40 or 50.

That's not my position to compare myself to other guys. I look at it as can I be productive, can I get the job done?

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

I've done a lot of different things in my life. I've parachuted, done some deep-sea diving. Inasmuch as it's safe to do, I can do it.