Capable Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.

  Mardy Grothe

  Feet, People, Shooting

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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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• I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

  Wesley Morris

  Color, White, People

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

  John Rosemond

  Children, Parent, Doe

  FaceBook post by John Rosemond from Apr 30, 2016

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• I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Memories, School

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• Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.

  Steven Knight

  Believe, Light, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Being There, Moments

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• For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.

  Rose McIver

  Able, Direct, Known

  "Rose McIver Talks BRIGHTEST STAR, Acting in All Mediums, Working on MASTERS OF SEX, ONCE UPON A TIME, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 2, 2014.

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• It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.

  J.H. Wyman

  Art, Long, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Men, Insult, Infamy

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• Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Ordinary, Ordinary People

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• A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

  Peter Drucker

  Generations, Lifetime, Economy

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.34, Routledge

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• The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

  Peter Drucker

  Definitions, Resources, Enterprise

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.11, Routledge

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• On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Falling In Love, Swimming

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• You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.

  John Wooden

  Heart, Failing, Knows

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• Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Moon, Men, Justice

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• Each of us has a huge capacity to learn and to achieve. Being ever alert makes the task of becoming all we are capable of becoming so much easier.

  John Wooden

  Tasks, Becoming, Achieve

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Becoming

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (2015). “The Divine Milieu”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Men, Follow Through

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• At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Reality, Mind, Periods

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• And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results in a story with a sense of energy and direction.

  Les Standiford

  Thinking, Practice, Energy

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• Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Organization, Energy, Needs

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.

  George Reisman

  Kings, Past, Average

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