Quotes About Capability

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

They always seemed to think that a horse was something like a steam-engine, only smaller. At any rate, they seemed to think that if they only pay for it, a horse is bound to go just as far, and just as fast, and with just as heavy a load as they please.

I am above eighteen, and quite able to take care of myself, and others too. You do not know half the wisdom and prudence I possess, because I have never been tried.

The author of this book ciritcizes the youth of today from top to toe, without, however, condemning the whole of the young brigade as incapable of anything good.

But easy victories pall after a while. If one always wins, perhaps one is attempting only what is well within one's capabilities—and there lies a kind of death, don't you think? That which does not grow may well be showing the first signs of atrophy.

Most strange and wondrous, I thought, that the power of the mind was greater than the power of the hands.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.

The business model should be such that the employees needed possess the lowest possible level of skill necessary to fulfill the functions for which each is intended.

Every man, woman, and child is capable of extreme and utter prejudice and cruelty when they feel justified in their hatred.

I don't know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat. (Valerius)

For every act of cruelty mankind is capable of, they're just as capable of kindness.(Leta)

In every person there is the capacity to do something really special.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

To engage in any activity, the warrior needs to know what to expect, how to achieve the objective and whether or not he is capable of carrying out the proposed task.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.

I see your capacity for addition has improved

I'll be fine. I'm a big boy now, you know.

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

Manly deeds, womanly hands.

At once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is, when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.

The turtle cant dance because it has no waist

Mere adequacy is never adequate.