Capable Quotes - Page 39

• Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable of writing a really good game. My dad's a writer, and when you ask him how to learn to write, he says, "write." So basically, do it and keep doing it until you get good.

  Fred Haslam

  Dad, Writing, Games

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• You've got to understand that. We all look out for Morrissey. It's a very brotherly feeling. When we first rehearsed, I'd have done anything for him. And as a person Morrissey is really capable of a truly loving relationship. Every day he's so open, so romantic and sensitive to other people's emotions.

  Johnny Marr

  People, Feelings, Looks

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• Having spent 200 hours on the above, the young player, even if he possesses no special talent for chess, is likely to be among those two or three thousand chessplayers [who play on a par with a master]. There are, however, a quarter of a million chessplayers who annually spend no fewer than 200 hours on chess without making any progress. Without going into any further calculations, I can assert with a high degree of certainty that nowadays we achieve only a fraction of what we are capable of achieving.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Player, Two, Special

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• The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Zero, Trying, Nuclear

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• One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.

  Alan Rickman

  Jobs, Two, Together

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• Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

  Georges Bernanos

  Insanity, Savages, Anticipation

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• It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

  Karl Urban

  Mother, Age, Renaissance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

  Jeremy Bentham

  Animal, Thinking, Suffering

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• For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Home, Talking, Years

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.13, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices of others, and some come just because this is mortality. You are His son or His daughter. He made your spirit strong and capable of being resilient to the whirlwinds of life. The whirlwinds in your youth, like the wind against a young tree, can increase your spiritual strength, preparing you for the years ahead.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Daughter, Spiritual, Strong

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• One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

  Clive James

  Nhs, Worry, Classic

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• I'm the underdog, but know what I'm capable of.

  Mark Philippoussis

  Underdog, Knows

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• Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain, they know just where to stick the dynamite. With a few small power plays - a skeptical comment, the withholding of approval or praise - a mother can devastate a daughter. Decades of subtle undermining can stunt a daughter, or so monopolize her energy that she in effect stunts herself. Muted, fearful, riddled with self-doubt, she can remain trapped in daughterhood forever, the one place she feels confident she knows the rules.

  Rebecca Walker

  Daughter, Mother, Emotional

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• I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don't really see a lot of women hunters. They're still in the minority in the military, and there's not a lot of female construction workers. I hope that's not taken the wrong way. I think women are as smart, resourceful, and capable in most things as any man could be … but they are generally physically weaker. That's science.

  Robert Kirkman

  Military, Smart, Taken

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• No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which to live. From a functional viewpoint, the courtyard of the Rowhouse in Sumiyoshi forces the inhabitant to endure the occasional hardships. At the same time, however, the open courtyard is capable of becoming the house's vital organ, introducing the everyday life and assimilating precious stimuli such as changes in nature.

  Tadao Ando

  House, Everyday, Hardship

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• Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime, of surface mildew, in which a ferment is already working. A turbulent, spasmodic sap, a presage and expectation of a new way of being, breaking with mineral perpetuity and boldly exchanging it for the doubtful privilege of being able to tremble, decay, and multiply.

  Roger Caillois

  Expectations, Challenges, Secret

  Roger Caillois (1985). “The writing of stones”, Univ of Virginia Pr

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• In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
  Yu was very brave and won
  many battles, but in the end
  he failed. Treat people with
  sincerity and build a good
  organization. Otherwise, it
  doesn’t matter how famous
  or how capable you are.

  Li Ka-shing

  Organization, People, Brave

  "On Corporate Strategy". Shantou University Business School Economic Forum, www.lksf.org. May 11, 2001.

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• There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.

  Robin Quivers

  Forgiveness, Cutting, Forgiving

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• Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Inspirational, Motivational, History

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• Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Kids, Thinking

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• Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Birthday, People, Giving

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• Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

  Jim Cramer

  Birthday, Business, Fate

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• I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.

  August Wilson

  Betrayal, Play, Ideas

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• When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

  David Goggins

  Thinking, Done, Body

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• Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

  Terry Pratchett

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.64, Random House

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