Capable Quotes - Page 28

• You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.

  John Wooden

  Mistake, Heart, Effort

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• Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, People, Honest

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• Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

  Eric Ludy

  Males, Culture, Asking

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• Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Liberty, Anecdotes

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• For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

  Louis Aragon

  Men, Particular, Universe

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• He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. 
  (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

  Alex Ferguson

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Scotland, Improving

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• [Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by an artist capable of seizing it. (1928)

  Pierre Mac Orlan

  Photography, Artist, Documentaries

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• My wife gave me a book before we got married, Oh, the Places You'll Go!, by Dr. Seuss. She was trying to tell me something, about what I was capable of, but I didn't get it. Over time, I've sort of lived the message in that book, and I couldn't have without what golf taught me. So I put it in my bag while I played the Old Course, and on the last hole when I posed on the Swilcan Bridge, I held it up.

  George Lopez

  Book, Golf, Bridges

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• Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white show, and this isn't about bad guys and good guys, but it's about good men being capable of bad things and vice versa, I wanted to be in a city that had contradiction.

  Veena Sud

  Character, Black And White, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

  Jon Meacham

  Art, Moving, America

  "Book World Live: Jon Meacham Discusses His Acclaimed Andrew Jackson Biography 'American Lion' with Readers". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Morning, Animal

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.412, e-artnow

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• The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Two, Path, Comfortable

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think a lot of us who had these oddly shaped childhoods, in some ways we're hyper-capable. We're able to take care of ourselves in a lot of ways but it's like we're missing a piece. When everyone went to school to learn how to be a regular person we were sick that day. We compensate other ways. Alcohol and drugs is one of those ways. Instead of learning how to cope with our problems and deal with hardship and deal with anger, we just decide to get drunk and not care.

  Bucky Sinister

  School, Thinking, Sick

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Eye, Ideas

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• I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of.

  Dov Davidoff

  People, Amazed, Incapable

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• The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Objectivity, Practice

  Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.134, MIT Press

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• In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political weapon. Such effects arise from its technique of juxtaposing heterogeneous, unrelated pieces of reality torn from their context. A good photomontage has the same effect as a good joke.

  Gyorgy Lukacs

  Powerful, Reality, Political

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• I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Thinking, Matter

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• I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Reading, Individual, Complexity

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• Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

  Robert D. Hales

  Stronger, Trials, Tests

  FaceBook post by Robert D Hales from May 23, 2014

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• Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Men

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• People don't realize we have these built-in seven-league boots. The body can go anywhere. It is physically capable of sustaining almost any kind of abuse, or any dream.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, People, League

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• When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity.

  Bryan Cranston

  School, Opportunity, College

  "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. March 4, 2009.

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• As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Special, Doe

  Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.144

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• Only children believe they're capable of everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Believe, Only Child

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