Capable Quotes - Page 32

• No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Doe, Noble

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Sad, Money

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• If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.

  Will Self

  Morning, Eye, Mind

  "The Essential David Shrigley" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

  Maurice Sendak

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

  Maurice Sendak

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

  Shakira

  Art, Clothes, Cameras

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Reality, Desire, Anticipation

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

  Todd Solondz

  Real, People, Want

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

  Kevin Spacey

  Winning, Scripts, Brad

  Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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• The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

  Richard Steele

  Marriage, Wedding, Heaven

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”

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• I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

  George Stevens

  Arrogance, Brutality, Fierce

  George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, Liberty

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• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  Charlize Theron

  Careers, Interesting, Different

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• Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

  Lewis Thomas

  Development, Stage, Juvenile

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• In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

  Lewis Thomas

  Years, Mind, Experts

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Treats, Esteem

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wwe, Innovation, Kind

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• I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

  Alice Walker

  Men, Delight, Enough

  "No retreat" by Sara Wajid, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2006.

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• Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

  Horace Walpole

  Future, Greatness, Men

  Horace Walpole, George Vertue (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.371

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• Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

  Simone Weil

  Inspiration, People, Giving

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge

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• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Perception, Mind

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

  Romola Garai

  Believe, Desire, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Taxation, Body, Coercion

  Geoff Mulgan (2006). “Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government”

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• If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  New York, Writing, Play

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• I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers. So few people know what they're capable of. At forty-two I'd never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem - my chronic inability to astonish myself.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Passion, Two, Space

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.17, Penguin

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