Capable Quotes
2237 quotes by 1598 authors
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You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an…
— Andy Grove
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To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches…
— John Austin Baker
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Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time…
— Alexis Carrel
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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
— Xunzi
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God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of…
— Pope Pius X
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The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of the creative and…
— Midori Snyder
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It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all.…
— Rajneesh
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No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings…
— Peter Drucker
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In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to economic fundamentalism, with…
— Carlos Fuentes
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If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.
— Thomas Sowell
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No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
— Robert M. Hensel
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Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.
— Pat Summitt
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If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel…
— Les Blank
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Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities…
— Richardson Wright
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided…
— Laozi
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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a…
— Israel Zangwill
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If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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