Capability Quotes - Page 12

• Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Strategy, Lost

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• If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technology, Thinking, Wish

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• Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

  Denis Waitley

  Self Esteem, Done, May

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition

  Marc Andreessen

  Crush, Real, Competition

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• The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Innovation, Different, Culture

  "Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued" by Ron Ashkenas, www.forbes.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Israel, World, Force

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• The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons.

  Robert Byrd

  Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction, Warfare

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• Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems and processes. Humans and machines will need to become far more closely coupled, through improved human-machine interfaces and by direct augmentation of human performance

  Werner J. A. Dahm

  Machines, Today, Tasks

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• You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Good Friend, Thinking, Track

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• Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Priorities, Process, Should

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• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Military, Fighting, Technology

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• Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

  Yanni

  Humanity, Mind, Capacity

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• One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.

  Dorian Yates

  Jobs, Bodybuilding, Stressed

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• Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

  Douglas Trumbull

  Stars, Light, Color

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• The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

  Byron Nelson

  Attitude, Firsts, Steps

  Byron Nelson, Larry Dennis (1976). “Shape your swing the modern way”, Golf Digest/Tennis

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• When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Real, People, Knows

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• The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

  Clay Shirky

  Class, Transfers, Various

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Identity, Behavior

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.71, Penguin

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• Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Support, Poverty

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• I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.

  Usher

  Believe, Thinking, Mentor

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• The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

  George W. Bush

  Law, America, Enforcement

  "Supreme Court Nominee Visits President and Lawmakers; President Bush Speaks in Baltimore About Renewal of Patriot Act, Supreme Court Nomination". "CNN Live Today", edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

  Ray Stata

  Creativity, Technology, Innovation

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• You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective

  Demi Lovato

  Simple, Perspective, Changing Your Life

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.145, Macmillan

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• Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000
  and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about
  ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability
  and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making
  certain they're always positive.

  Jack Canfield

  Thinking, Keys, Hours

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• President Obama is getting a new limousine that will have advanced night-vision capabilities. The technology even has a cool name ... headlights.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Technology, Night, Names

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