Capability Quotes - Page 24

• If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Europe, Unions, Nato

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• Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.

  Chris Shiflett

  Blessing, Expectations, Praise

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• It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark within him. Such characterizations infer that man possesses great abilities and potentials. We are frequently admonished to develop our capabilities, reach out, and set high goals for ourselves.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Men, Generosity

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• Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm

  Albert Bandura

  Successful, Irreparable Harm, People

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• People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts

  Albert Bandura

  Cutting, Self, People

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• Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Coping

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• In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business functions means that it will continue to consume a large portion of corporate spending.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Running, Fall, Mean

  "Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore". hbswk.hbs.edu. June 09, 2003.

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• Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science today. We are a country which had these capabilities. We need to regain them.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Motivation, Space

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• Good education is linked with good teachers. We need to think how we can have good teachers. India has the capability to produce & export as many teachers to the World as it needs. We need to think about how we can create an environment where children want to become good teachers.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Powerful, Reflection

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• We have the brand, and we have the fulfillment capability. Now we had to get the Net, and that's the easiest part of the game.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Games, Fulfillment

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• When people have a sense of our military capability, nobody will ever dare to cast an evil eye on our nation.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Military, Eye

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• India is a youthful country. A country with such a major percentage of youth has the capability to change not only its own, but the fate of the entire world.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Fate, India

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• In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while among the smaller newspapers, there continues to be interest in systems that can provide a significant boost in production capabilities.

  Eric Bell

  Opportunity, America, Enhancement

  "Eric Bell is Director of Marketing Services at Goss International". Interview with Charlotte Janischewski, www.wan-ifra.org. October 13, 2011.

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• Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

  Bruce Henderson

  Excellence, Waste, Encounters

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• Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.

  Moshe Arens

  Running, Islamic, Israel

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.

  Yoko Ono

  Together, World, Shelter

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.

  Dave Ulrich

  Thinking, Organization, Purpose

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her
  banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural
  capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was
  in the days of Solomon.

  John Lindsay

  Children, Waiting, Soil

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• Over the longer term, China will grow by about 6% or 7% per year. The Chinese authorities usually react pretty quickly to unfolding economic events, and you've seen them recently change a whole bunch of policies to be more conducive to growth. They have the power and capability to macromanage the economy - to accomplish their growth objectives - which means they're pretty much going to come close to what they say is going to happen.

  Jamie Dimon

  Mean, Years, Chinese

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Let kids dream! Let them fantasize. Let them plan all these great things they want to be. Stoke it, instead of limiting what you think people can do and limiting what you think their capabilities are. And liberals, by definition, do that. They don't think anybody's capable of much. That's why government's need.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The "third arrow" (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.

  Jamie Dimon

  Technology, Arrows, Japan

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs.

  John Bruton

  Country, Nuclear, Asking

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• I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on the reader's mood. That's why negative capability matters; if the poet stops short of fully controlling each poem's meaning, the reader can make the poem his or her own.

  James Arthur

  Negative, Poet, Mood

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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