Capable Quotes - Page 15

• Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Simple, Redemption, Good And Bad

  "Inside Man". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2010.

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• Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

  Abdellah Taia

  Oneself

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

  Bassam Tibi

  America, People, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

  Terence Koh

  Art, Internet, Destroying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Limits, Delusion

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004/ January 2005.

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• I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.

  Tracey Garvis-Graves

  Distance, One Day, Events

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• I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

  Angel Olsen

  Trying, Prove

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. February 22, 2013.

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• Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Evil

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• By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by waiting and waiting and waiting, by giving minimal help when they really need it, we allow our infants to learn and grow at their own time and in their own way. I believe that, no matter how much and how fast the world changes, a well-grounded, competent, and confident person is best equipped to adapt to it. This is our goal.

  Magda Gerber

  Believe, Giving, Goal

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• A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

  E. V. Lucas

  Unique, Men, Doe

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• I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

  Mike Leigh

  Class, Way, Scripts

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids. They're poor, maybe their families are broken, so they're not coming home to a mom and dad and a nice dinner every night. But these kids are capable.

  Rafe Esquith

  Mom, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?

  Sarah Palin

  People, Support, Nurture

  "Sarah Palin On Gun Control Debate: Politicians Shouldn’t Ask How ‘To Limit The Freedom Of The People’" By Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Ideas, Scratches

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• Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

  Ken Robinson

  People, Talent, Achieve

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.9, Penguin

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• Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Honor, Excellence

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• The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Dream, Children, Crazy

  "Toys of tomorrow" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. March 1, 1998.

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• The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

  John W. Gardner

  Decision, Leader, Style

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• Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.

  George Mason

  Government, People, Safety

  Virginia Bill of Rights article 3 (1776)

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• I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown.

  Clinton Portis

  Running, Balls, Looks

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• There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Upset, Facts, Needs

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• You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.

  Garrett Atkins

  Play, Skills, Next Level

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• If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

  Mike Lowell

  Block, Failing, Percent

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• No democratic delusion is more fatuous than that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Reason, Democratic

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.353, Vintage

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• The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.

  Laozi

  Evil, Giving, Saint

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