Capability Quotes - Page 20

• The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

  Herrick Johnson

  Morning, Night, Soul

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Thinking, Hands, Track

  "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

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• The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

  Abby Sunderland

  Sea, Humans, Happens

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.179, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

  John Lennon

  Music, Fun, Writing

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.126, Omnibus Press

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• You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

  Zig Ziglar

  Accomplishment, Compare, Comparing Yourself To Others

  Ziglar, Zig (1985). “Steps to the Top”, p.13, Pelican Publishing

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• These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With this first-strike strategy, the West believes it could attack Russian military installations with such effectiveness that serious retaliation would be impossible.

  Petra Kelly

  Peace, Military, War

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• Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Long

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• I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.

  will.i.am

  Song, Believe, People

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• Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

  Martin Rees

  Computer, Achieve, Claims

  "What the future looks like" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2009.

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• All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  Book, Writing, Character

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• ...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

  Al Gore

  Agents, Evolution, Bursting

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• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  M. Ward

  Smell, Childhood, Able

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• Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

  Todd Young

  Moving, Safety, Use

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• A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

  John Kao

  Innovation, Invaluable, Pioneering

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• We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

  Don Yaeger

  Focus, Opponents, Strive

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• Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

  Jane McGonigal

  Energy, Pessimistic, Despondent

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• I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

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• Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.

  Joseph DeRisi

  Past, Technology, Dna

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• The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a category-defining product. Powered by Tegra 3, it launches us into a new era of mobile computing, in which quad-core performance and super energy-efficiency provide capabilities never available before. With Transformer Prime, ASUS has once again led the industry into the next generation.

  Jen-Hsun Huang

  Eras, Next, Pads

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• The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Character, Men

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• I maintain that I have been a Negro three times--a Negro baby, a Negro girl and a Negro woman. Still, if you have received no clear cut impression of what the Negro in America is like, then you are in the same place with me. There is no The Negro here. Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people!

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Girl, Baby, Attitude

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• In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have some definite plan, while they were children, what to be and do when they were grown up. There was usually but one path open before them, to become good wives and housekeepers. And the ambition of most girls was to follow their mothers' footsteps in this direction; a natural and laudable ambition. But girls, as well as boys, must often have been conscious of their own peculiar capabilities,--must have desired to cultivate and make use of their individual powers.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have changed on an enduring basis and so we have dismantle our military and intelligence capabilities. My hope is that as we wind down in Iraq and whatever the level of our commitment in Afghanistan, that we not forget the basic nature of humankind has not changed.

  Robert M. Gates

  Military, Commitment, Iraq

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• When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Use, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's critical how we want to use these spy programs, these electronic capabilities, where we want to draw the line, and who should approve these programs, these decisions, and at what level, for engaging in operations that could lead us as a nation into a war.

  Edward Snowden

  War, Decision, Spy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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