capability quotes

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

It’s not bragging if you can back it up.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.