Capability Quotes - Page 27

• The 20-G Centrifuge is our largest facility certified for use by humans. Its capabilities make it a unique NASA resource and a very versatile research tool that is ideal for developing health-maintenance activities for astronauts.

  Jeff Smith

  Unique, Tools, Maintenance

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• The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.

  Alan Bishop

  Song, Stupid, Important

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Mistake, Numbers, Accomplishment

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• Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas, they don't have a great impetus. But again, the revenue that natural resources produce gives them the capability and so countries like Iran are beginning to develop an industrial component.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Iran, Oil

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Inheritance, Creatures

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Lazy, Looks, Use

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Over the longer term, China will grow by about 6% or 7% per year. The Chinese authorities usually react pretty quickly to unfolding economic events, and you've seen them recently change a whole bunch of policies to be more conducive to growth. They have the power and capability to macromanage the economy - to accomplish their growth objectives - which means they're pretty much going to come close to what they say is going to happen.

  Jamie Dimon

  Mean, Years, Chinese

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• The "third arrow" (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.

  Jamie Dimon

  Technology, Arrows, Japan

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

  Marc Guggenheim

  Challenges, Actors, Matter

  Source: deadline.com

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• Let kids dream! Let them fantasize. Let them plan all these great things they want to be. Stoke it, instead of limiting what you think people can do and limiting what you think their capabilities are. And liberals, by definition, do that. They don't think anybody's capable of much. That's why government's need.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Phones, Nsa

  "Edward Snowden, NSA files source: 'If they want to get you, in time they will'". Interview with Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2013.

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• Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Meaningful, Creativity, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Oct 11, 2012

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• When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dream, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Three Weeks with My Brother". Book by Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks, April 5, 2004.

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• To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.

  Joseph Pilates

  Strong, Accomplishment, Healthy

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed

  Amy Purdy

  Unique, Embrace, Remarkable

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• You can either tell yourself, 'It's too hard, I don't think I'll be able to do it,' or 'Yes, I can do this. Let me at it!' Only a fine line separates the two. But I'll tell you one thing: if you work like crazy, you'll come to display capabilities that you never knew you had--potentials that you always possessed, but never tapped.

  Josei Toda

  Motivational, Crazy, Work

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• It is necessary for a Christian to fast, in order to clear his mind, to rouse and develop his feelings, and to stimulate his will to useful activity. These three human capabilities we darken and stifle above all by 'surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life' (Lk. 21:34).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Order, Feelings

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• When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.

  Rose Tremain

  Dream, Writing, Data

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Believe, Parenting

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• One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Attachment

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.47, Penguin Books India

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• We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.

  Michael Beckwith

  Secret, Ceilings, Talent

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 17, 2012

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• A temple is a place in which those whom He has chosen are endowed with power from on high—a power which enables us to use our gifts and capabilities—to bring to pass our Heavenly Father's purposes in our own lives and the lives of those we love.

  David B. Haight

  Father, Purpose, Use

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• God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

  Billy Graham

  Humility, People, Achievement

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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