Quotes About Capability

It's one thing to have a good idea, but it's another to have confidence in a person to execute it,

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cupcakes than others; some are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.

When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness.

I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of -- that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect...I find that encouraging.

Talent is like a container. You can work as hard as you want, but the size will never change. It'll only hold so much water and no more.

You apply sophisticated information systems and rigorous analysis not only to your core capability but also to a range of functions as varied as marketing and human resources.

When the 75 members of Stanford Graduate School of Business's Advisory Council were asked to recommend the most important capability for leaders to develop, their answer was nearly unanimous: self-awareness.

That was perhaps a definition of innocence: not knowing what one was capable of.

Humans were always more capable of evil than you could imagine. And they were also capable of more wonderment than you could ever fathom. People had come up with this city. And what was different between them and her? They had hands and eyes. They had imaginations. They went to bed at night, and they had funny adventures in their heads. Anything was possible. But the effects

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has said that he would not like to get into debt because he doesn't want to discover what behavior he's capable of.

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

There are virtually no females who would be able to lug a fallen male solider weighing 200 pounds naked, before donning battle equipment, 200 yards out of the line of fire.

Do I think I can take 20 carries now? Well, I think finally last week and this is week was probably the first time I could probably say, yeah, I could take 20 carries and go do some damage.

What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.

I grew up in a very traditional family, but there was never anything I didn't think I could do.

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

To train a national team, you have to know what team you have at your disposal and what this team is capable of. You need to get the best out of them and take them as far as possible. Yet, sometimes, you can't achieve your goals.

I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.