Capability Quotes - Page 19

• I continue to see a healthy PC market, very healthy. The machines will continue to morph; you'll see smaller machines that have more capability.

  Jim Allchin

  Healthy, Machines

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• The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

  Clay Shirky

  Class, Transfers, Various

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

  Clay Shirky

  Mean, Identity, Behavior

  Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.71, Penguin

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• You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Color, Accomplishment, People

  Source: www.eldiariony.com

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• I think it's important for us to believe in one another's capabilities. If I didn't have someone to believe in me, I wouldn't be the individual I am today. Neither would I strive for new territory or new direction or to believe in myself.

  Usher

  Believe, Thinking, Mentor

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• We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Men, Thinking, Half

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• The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

  Ray Stata

  Creativity, Technology, Innovation

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• Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.

  Tod Machover

  Technology, Iphone, Rocks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000
  and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about
  ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability
  and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making
  certain they're always positive.

  Jack Canfield

  Thinking, Keys, Hours

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• Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.

  Karin Dreijer Andersson

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.

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• We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

  Charles R. Morris

  Ideas, Littles, Sides

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.

  Neal Boortz

  Jobs, Skills, Greed

  Attributed to Neal Boortz in "Quotes, Jokes & Anecdotes", edited by Gerard O'Boyle, 2012.

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• It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

  Clay Shirky

  Historical, Expansion, Generations

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• Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.

  Bryan Kest

  Hurt, Depth, Body

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• I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

  Mark Pryor

  Fighting, Wings, Teeth

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• Each of us has some unique capabilities waiting for realization.

  George H. Bender

  Unique, Waiting, Realization

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• Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.

  Jan Carlzon

  Real, Teaching, Learning

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• [Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.

  Mikko Hypponen

  Country, Motivation, Moving

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• In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

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• Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentials and capabilities?

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Selfish, Men, Law

  "Out of the Jungle" (1967); as quoted in "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, Wellingborough: Thorsons, (p. 31), 1985.

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• I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Encouragement, Recovery, Keys

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• Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Excellence, Execution, Strategy

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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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• No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.

  David Spangler

  Courage, Powerful, Healing

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• The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.

  Alan Cranston

  Military, War, Government

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