Capable Quotes - Page 22

• In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

  Emily Giffin

  Character, Independent, Thinking

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mother, Brother, Children

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.

  John Dewey

  Civilization, Achievement, Growth

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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• The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Order

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

  John Dewey

  Understanding, Outcomes, Impossible

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.23, 谷月社

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• I want everyone to know that Russia in general and the Russian leadership, it is something effective and properly functioning. That the country itself, its institutions, leaders are represented by healthy, capable people who are ready for cooperation with our partners in every single area: sports, politics, fight against modern threats. I have nothing but a positive feeling about it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sports, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.russianembassy.org

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• I firmly believe that the reputation of any country which is capable of defending the life and dignity of its citizens, and can conduct independent foreign policy will only improve in mid- and long-term perspective.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Independent

  Source: russialist.org

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• I think these debates coming up are going to be a test of who the American people like better, who they want in their living room more, who they think is better capable of being president of the United States.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Thinking, People, President

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled in their world. Nothing visible or capable of explanation. In fact, I'd never seen a whale. When I first witnessed their terrible death agony, I couldn't get the picture of a whale being harpooned out of my mind. It was a hideous mind-blowing sight. That day I recognised a purpose on the journey of my life.

  Sue Arnold

  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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• No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.

  Otto E. Neugebauer

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• Matter is capable of infinite subdivision...All matter is in a state of perpetual activity [motion], whether the substance under consideration be inanimate or animated, visible or invisible...There is no dividing of matter and force into two distinct terms, as they both are ONE. FORCE is liberated matter. MATTER is force in bondage.

  John Ernst Worrell Keely

  Two, Matter, Substance

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• We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Welcome

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• One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Farewell, Men, Sky

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Effort, Deceit

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• What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of the rap stuff that I do.

  PJ Harvey

  Rap, People, Stuff

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• Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Smart, Not Good Enough, Brain

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

  John Irving

  Believe, Complicated, Should

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.

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• You can't do all the work, so surround yourself with people you trust; if this is your show then everything is ultimately your call, but the more faith you have in people who have proven to be capable, the more sane you get to be.

  Kevin Biegel

  People, Surround Yourself, Shows

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• [Adolf Hitler] was Austrian, so he knew how to play that role [being capable of apologizing]. In fact, it wasn't playacting, it was just part of who he was. He hated to see women cry or women upset.

  Gretl Braun

  Play, Upset, Facts

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• It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Victory, Unions

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

  Leon Trotsky

  Thinking, Hymns, Singing

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.

  Manmohan Singh

  Gratitude, Thinking, America

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• I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, People, Mind

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Here we have perhaps in Mike Pence someone uniquely capable of explaining [Donald] Trump and being Trump and explaining for people who Trump is and what he is. And defending against whatever predictable insults and assaults on Trump that [Tim] Kaine comes up with.

  Donald Trump

  People, Insult, Assault

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think that [Mike] Pence is entirely capable of doing that. I think he's willing to do it. I don't know what their strategery is on this. I would hope there aren't any - [Hillary Clinton] is the nominee, for crying out loud. She is the opposition. She is who we go after.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Cry, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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