Quotes About Capability

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Knowing that we are responsible—"response-able"—is fundamental to effectiveness and to every other habit of effectiveness we will discuss.

efectividad reside en el equilibrio, en lo que denomino el equilibrio P/CP. «P» es la producción de los resultados deseados, los huevos de oro. «CP» es la capacidad de producción, la aptitud o el medio que produce los huevos de oro.

Suppose you want your daughter to have a clean room—that's P, production, the golden egg. And suppose you want her to clean it—that's PC, production capability.

True effectiveness is a function of two things: that which is produced (the golden eggs), and the producing asset or capacity to produce (the goose).

Effectiveness lies in the balance—what I call the P/PC Balance. P stands for production of desired results, the golden eggs. PC stands for production capability, the ability or asset that produces the golden eggs.

the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness. It balances short term with long term. It balances going for the grade and paying the price to get an education. It balances the desire to have a room clean and the building of a relationship in which the child is internally committed to do it—cheerfully, willingly, without external supervision.

Interdependence is a far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone.

But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.

But as the story shows, true effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset or capacity to produce (the goose).

you can hire anybody to do anything.

It's not what we call ourselves that matters, it's the attitude we bring and the skills we can contribute.

Be undeniably good.

Anyone who is equipped to hunt, harvest crops, chop firewood, or prepare salad has the means to damage a lot of human flesh.

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.

And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.

It is far better to render Beings in your care competent than to protect them.

It is far better to render Beings in your car competent than to protect them

Competence beats obedience.

Tan solo el ser humano podía concebir el potro de torturas, la doncella de hierro y el aplastapulgares. Tan solo el ser humano hará sufrir únicamente por el gusto de hacer sufrir. Esta es la mejor definición del mal que he sido capaz de formular. Los animales son incapaces de hacer algo así, pero los humanos, con sus atroces capacidades de semidioses, sí que pueden.