Quotes on Capability

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought. Nuclear capability must be reduced to zero, globally, permanently. There is no other option.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.