Capable Quotes - Page 10

• Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

  Barbara Ascher

  Self, Joy, Solitary

  Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins

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• You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Friendship, Success, Lonely

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• I'm pretty clear about what I'm capable of doing.

  Nico Muhly

  Clear

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

  Mike Leigh

  Class, Way, Scripts

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• You hear terrible stories because there'll be a story about some terrible kid, but most of the kids I work with are terrific kids. They're poor, maybe their families are broken, so they're not coming home to a mom and dad and a nice dinner every night. But these kids are capable.

  Rafe Esquith

  Mom, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kgb, Russia, Eight

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?

  Sarah Palin

  People, Support, Nurture

  "Sarah Palin On Gun Control Debate: Politicians Shouldn’t Ask How ‘To Limit The Freedom Of The People’" By Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Ideas, Scratches

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• I hope that the responsible figures in the Ukrainian leadership will not hinder soldiers in the Ukrainian army from putting down their weapons, if they aren't capable of taking that decision themselves and giving that order, then I hope that they won't prosecute people who want to save their lives and the lives of others.

  Vladimir Putin

  Leadership, Army, Order

  "Ukraine pro-Russia forces seize strategic Debaltseve railway hub despite truce" by Alec Luhn and Oksana Grytsenko, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2015.

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• Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

  Ken Robinson

  People, Talent, Achieve

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.9, Penguin

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• Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Honor, Excellence

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• [My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Men, World

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, p. 9, 1964.

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• The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Dream, Children, Crazy

  "Toys of tomorrow" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. March 1, 1998.

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• The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

  John W. Gardner

  Decision, Leader, Style

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• We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with God, some more, some less. He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Humility, And Love

  Brother Lawrence (2012). “The Practice of the Presence of God and The Spiritual Maxims”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Because my work is naturally non-meaningful, the meaning found in it will remain doubtful and inconsistent - which is the way it should be. All that I care about is that, like any startling piece of nature, it should be capable of stimulating meaning.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Meaningful, Way, Pieces

  Claes Oldenburg, International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Tate Gallery (1970). “Claes Oldenburg: an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum, the Tate Gallery, London 24 June - 16th August 1970”

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• I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

  Jules Verne

  Believe, Hydrogen Fuel, Oxygen

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Abandoned”, p.142, Jules Verne

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• Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.

  George Mason

  Government, People, Safety

  Virginia Bill of Rights article 3 (1776)

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• I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown.

  Clinton Portis

  Running, Balls, Looks

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• When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we're challenged to alter ourselves

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Predicaments

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• I believe I'm a middle-of-the-order hitter capable of driving in runs. If I stay healthy, I'll get back to that level.

  Justin Morneau

  Running, Believe, Order

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• There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Upset, Facts, Needs

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• God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With that vision of what those who have lost their way may become, my prayer is that they may receive strength and resolution to climb higher and higher and upward and onward to that great goal of eternal life and also that I may do my part in seeking to show by example, as well as by precept, that which will be the best of which I am capable of doing.

  Harold B. Lee

  Prayer, Goal, Vision

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• You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.

  Garrett Atkins

  Play, Skills, Next Level

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• If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

  Mike Lowell

  Block, Failing, Percent

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