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Quotes About Capability

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!
~ Emma Stone
Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
~ Brian Eno
I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old.
~ Ellen Ullman
If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.
~ Michael Seibel
People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.
~ Ruben Blades
We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can't.
~ Marvin Minsky
Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.
~ Richard Belzer
At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.
~ Lynn Good
You have to keep performing and keep showing people that you are capable of playing at the higher league. Once you get that sniff, you never look back.
~ Shreyas Iyer
If there is a snobbery, then they haven't been on set to see how a show like 'EastEnders' works. Because I know for a fact that some of my favourite actors are still not capable of doing what these guys do.
~ Tamzin Outhwaite
away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing
~ Michel Faber
Zuaika hebat, tapi ia tak sehebat itu. Tak seorangpun sehebat itu.
~ Mike Carey
When you're a mile outside the limits of your competence, there is some comfort to be had in sounding like you know what you're doing.
~ Mike Carey
I don't think the drug dealer in ghetto culture is really admired just because of the shit he owns. He isn't respected for his money, either. Think about it—there are plenty of people with money who aren't respected in ghettos all over the world. No, he's respected because he's capable. For those who feel broken and helpless, there does not exist a more inspiring thing.
~ Mike Hawthorne
People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability of suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is horror, and nothing but horror.
~ Milan Kundera
Las personas, por sí mismas, no son capaces de perdonar, eso no es algo que entre dentro de sus posibilidades. No tienen el poder de hacer que se convierta en nada un pecado que ya ha ocurrido.
~ Milan Kundera
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I grew up watching James Bond and Star Wars and I just love that kind of action. I love trying to see if *I* can actually do it.
~ Debby Ryan
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
~ Brian Herbert
Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind. —DRAIGO ROGET, Mentat debriefing for Venport Holdings
~ Brian Herbert
How? How did you know...? What, that my wife can do anything? Isn't it obvious?
~ Brian K. Vaughan
I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do
~ Brian K. Vaughan
You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.
~ Brian Tracy