Quotes About Capability

Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes.

the memory of having to abase herself and denigrate her sex, for she was certain that women's minds were just as capable as men's. But to say so would be a worse heresy than Luther's!

Does the person see himself or herself as highly competent or still learning?

We confuse responsibility with stress. Responsibility becomes stressful only if you are not strong enough to handle it.

When you know that you know "how" to do something, you're on your way to mastering it.

an immense power behind any individual

Just because a horse can run, or train, does not mean that it can race. It might have the ability to run just as fast as everyone else - or faster - but it can't race, or won't race. There are plenty of horses working at Penn National or Finger Lakes, everyday, putting in workouts that are just as fast as the horses at Belmont. But they can't race; that's why they're at Finger Lakes.

A raccoon could have been trained to do better than I was doing, though it would have to be a smart raccoon.

Hated them worse than he'd ever hated Sartoris or Aur Myss or anything in his life. Hated them with an intensity he'd never imagined himself capable of. It was as if all the molten fear he'd suffered up till now had hardened into glassy black peaks of pure rage.

Whatever you face, remind yourself that you can handle it. You've been designed for it.

Capability doesn't equal intent, Doctor. Do you want what she knows or not? Because if you keep looking at her like the caged lab rat, she'll keep looking at you like the evil bloody scientist with the big syringe.

One must be something to be able to do something.

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?

I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

At the bottom of all our fears is simply the that we can't handle what life hands us.

You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.

The horrible truth, that wicked people are capable of love, stood naked before her, and her moral being was abashed.

we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can achieve, and yet, for an equally strange reason, we think others can do things that we cannot. I want you to know that that is not true. You do have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you and you can have the things you want.

Courage is COMPETENCE!