Capability Quotes - Page 16

• Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

  Willis Harman

  Block, Real, Keys

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• It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

  Alfred Bester

  Real, Levels, Lows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Flying, Machines

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• Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

  Chris Chocola

  September 11, World, Immigration

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• Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Allies, United States, Defense

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• Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.

  Gordon Gee

  Powerful, Class, Ohio State

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

  Shinzo Abe

  Strong, Japan, United States

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• Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, May, Telescopes

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• New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Add, Pests, Disease

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• What I like about the third movie is you get to see a side of Carlisle you haven't seen before. You actually get to see what his vampire capabilities are because there's some great battle sequences. It's my favorite book. Carlisle is holding on to that humanity. He doesn't want to be a vampire.

  Peter Facinelli

  Book, Humanity, Vampire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Jobs, Color, Skins

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• We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.

  James A. Michener

  Space, Our Generation, Challenges

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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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• For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

  Arsene Wenger

  Motivation, Goal, Needs

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• Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability. I believe that is the route this country will eventually go.

  Dan Quayle

  Country, Believe, Politics

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• Traditional local media are adding local search capabilities to their sites so they can share in the local search traffic and ad revenues in the local markets they serve.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Media, Share, Traffic

  Marc Ostrofsky (2012). “Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to.

  George Papandreou

  Thinking, Europe, Important

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• I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Iran, Nuclear, World

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• I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

  Jim Ramstad

  Support, Als, Terrorist

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• To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Ideas, Horror, Easy

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• As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

  George Tenet

  Powerful, War, Past

  Director of Central Intelligence Remarks on Iraq's WMD Programs, www.cia.gov. February 5, 2004.

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• What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.

  Mitt Romney

  Iran, Political, Nuclear

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Motivational, Long, Yards

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• It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Space, Three

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• Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Political Revolution, Long

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.52, Penguin

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