Quotes About Capability

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

It took me a long time to understand that there is no amount of wanting and no amount of desire and no amount of hard work which allows you to become a classical ballerina if you're not physically given the gifts.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

I have the good fortune of working with two brothers who are very accomplished, incredibly smart, and very capable.

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

As far as my athletic ability, I can pretty much do it all. You can put me at linebacker and I'll do a good job.

I know I do good work.

When you've done good work, you can't come back with something stupid.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

We can improve the military at less cost and with increased capability. It's not acceptable to keep investing in structure when we would be wiser to invest in dominating the new warfare domain of cyberspace.

I only ever call up the best players, or at least the players who are the most suited to the way I wish to play.

Andy wasn't capable of any complicated thoughts or ideas. Ideas need a verb and a noun, a subject. Andy spoke in a kind of stumbling staccato. You had to finish sentences for him. So Andy operated through people who could do things for him. He wished things into happening, things he himself couldn't do.

To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

There's nothing women can't do. There's absolutely nothing we can't do. We're far stronger in a lot of ways than men. Way, way stronger than men. And that's my message to any woman I meet - that includes you - there's nothing you can't do, and you know that.