Capable Quotes
2237 quotes by 1598 authors
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[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at…
— Paulo Freire
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The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption…
— Jackson Katz
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers.…
— Ann Patchett
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I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.
— Anderson Silva
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A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government,…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to…
— John Lennox
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Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.
— Clive Barker
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Loving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life... when we see…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are…
— Ben Elton
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Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
— Akira Kurosawa
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Do I know I'm right? Judgments aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as…
— Tony Blair
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The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning a living. As a matter…
— Charlotte Mason
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The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
— Sam Raimi
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Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.
— Cory Booker
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During challenging times and when impassioned to act, human beings can be capable of miracles.
— Fabien Cousteau
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As sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, we are capable of so much more. For that, good intentions are not enough. We must do.…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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