Capable Quotes - Page 9

• The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Dream, Inspiration, Men

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Thinking, Different, Bernard Hopkins

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• Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Art, Expression, Defense

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.

  Karen Russell

  Moving, Writing, Focus

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Children, Eye, Adults

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The United States has weakened itself with Iraq; Iranians feel victorious - they feel capable of filling the void. I think from the very outset the nuclear issue has been secondary to the more strategic outlook, in which the United States has, since 1991, pursued a policy that it cannot permit any country in the region to become too powerful and challenge American hegemony.

  Trita Parsi

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  "Trita Parsi: The NIE’s Got Nothing on Him". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2007.

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• Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Simple, Redemption, Good And Bad

  "Inside Man". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2010.

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• Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

  Abdellah Taia

  Oneself

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

  Lawrence Kaplan

  Democracy, Culture, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

  Wesley Morris

  Color, White, People

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

  Naomie Harris

  Revenge, Compassion, And Love

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

  Naomie Harris

  Dream, Children, Giving

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

  Bassam Tibi

  America, People, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

  Terence Koh

  Art, Internet, Destroying

  Interview with Ross Simonini, believermag.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Feelings, Musician

  "Music, Influence, and 'Deeply Unnecessary' Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• I don't make art with grandiose delusions. I do know there are limits to what art is capable of. That makes it all the more appealing to me. And I can do as I will whenever I choose.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Limits, Delusion

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004/ January 2005.

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• I wonder how many marriages are fractured and damaged beyond repair by complacency rather than any single traumatic event. One day you wake up and realize that the distance between you and your spouse has grown to such an enormous width that neither of you are capable of clearing the distance. No matter how much speed you build up, or how far you can jump, it's just there. Gaping and unforgiving.

  Tracey Garvis-Graves

  Distance, One Day, Events

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• Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Powerful, Opportunity

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• Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!

  Nancy Tellem

  Careers, Creating, Experts

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• I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

  Angel Olsen

  Trying, Prove

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. February 22, 2013.

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• Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Evil

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• No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

  Aristotle

  Democracy, Citizens, Injustice

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• By closely supervising our infants, by allowing them to do what they are capable of, by restraining ourselves from rescuing them too often, by waiting and waiting and waiting, by giving minimal help when they really need it, we allow our infants to learn and grow at their own time and in their own way. I believe that, no matter how much and how fast the world changes, a well-grounded, competent, and confident person is best equipped to adapt to it. This is our goal.

  Magda Gerber

  Believe, Giving, Goal

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• A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

  E. V. Lucas

  Unique, Men, Doe

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