Capability Quotes
440 quotes by 369 authors
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Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your…
— Alexander Haig
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It takes a while to master the art of hammock-lounging. At first I could only manage five minutes or so before I thought I ought…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
— Naveen Jain
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In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel…
— Michael Jordan
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Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you…
— Thomas Keller
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of…
— Dennis Kucinich
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We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical…
— Li Ka-shing
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Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of…
— Jaron Lanier
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Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have…
— Curtis LeMay
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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
— Joshua Lederberg
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
— H. L. Mencken
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in…
— Ashley Montagu
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Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities.
— Hassan Nasrallah
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I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on…
— Barack Obama
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The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian…
— Steven Pinker
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I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the…
— Colin Powell
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who Wrote These Capability Quotes
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