Capability Quotes - Page 13

• If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't.

  Josh McDowell

  Believe, America, Trying

  "Why True Love Waits". Josh McDowell's talk in Ouray, Colorado, June 15, 2007.

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• In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some form or other is of vital importance in engineering as that subject is now conducted; we must either provide the capability in our computer systems, or take on the impossible task of training up a future race of engineers conditioned to think in a different way.

  Maurice Wilkes

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  "Computers Then and Now". Journal of the ACM 15, Sect. 4, (pp. 1-7), January 1968.

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• We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, Excellence, World

  Boston Globe, November 16, 2005.

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• We do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with.

  Marco Rubio

  Cutting, Air, Navy

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I think Pakistan was not a factor in terms of decision India to obtain nuclear weapon. Because there was no talk of Pakistan having any capability. The main factor was China. And the international prestige that China was getting as a consequence of having its own nuclear weapons.

  Subramanian Swamy

  Thinking, Decision, India

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• The optimization of cosmic darkness and of Earth's location within the dark universe that sacrifices neither the material needs of human beings nor their capacity to gain knowledge about the universe reflects masterful engineering at a level far beyond human capability- and even imagination. It testifies of a supernatural, superintelligent, superpowerful, fully deliberate Creator.

  Hugh Jackman

  Dark, Sacrifice, Engineering

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• Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

  Clayton Christensen

  Innovation, Mold, Process

  Clayton M. Christensen (1999). “Innovation and the General Manager”, Irwin Professional Pub

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• Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself... Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you. Certainly not the Museum of Modern Art.

  Milton Resnick

  Art, Museums, Play

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• Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Goal, Fields, Management

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• Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.

  David Allen

  Stress, Exercise, Expression

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns.

  Herrick Johnson

  Morning, Night, Soul

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Thinking, Hands, Track

  "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

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• The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

  Abby Sunderland

  Sea, Humans, Happens

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.179, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

  John Lennon

  Music, Fun, Writing

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.126, Omnibus Press

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• You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.

  Zig Ziglar

  Accomplishment, Compare, Comparing Yourself To Others

  Ziglar, Zig (1985). “Steps to the Top”, p.13, Pelican Publishing

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• These missiles [Cruise and Pershing II] represent a new generation of missiles whose deployment will help give NATO first-strike capability. With this first-strike strategy, the West believes it could attack Russian military installations with such effectiveness that serious retaliation would be impossible.

  Petra Kelly

  Peace, Military, War

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• Mutually Assured Destruction, MAD, works only as long as it works; it does not know what to do if deterrence fails, for it envisions no defensive capabilities. A deterrent works until it is needed; then one needs defenses.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Peace, War, Long

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• Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

  Martin Rees

  Computer, Achieve, Claims

  "What the future looks like" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2009.

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• All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other peoples backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  Book, Writing, Character

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• ...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

  Al Gore

  Agents, Evolution, Bursting

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• One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

  M. Ward

  Smell, Childhood, Able

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• Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

  Todd Young

  Moving, Safety, Use

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• A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

  John Kao

  Innovation, Invaluable, Pioneering

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• The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities.

  Anil Sinha

  Self, Empowering, Preparation

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• No one is perfect. Even the most confident people have insecurities. At some point in of our lives, we may feel we lack something. That is reality. We must try to live as per our capability.

  Anil Sinha

  Reality, People, Perfect

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