Capable Quotes

• Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Different
  • Emotions
  • Perseverance

• I have known Tom for many years. I know him to be a highly qualified and capable individual who will serve the Robinson organization extremely well in the years to come.

  

  John Moyer Disturbed
  • Individual
  • Known
  • Extremely

• A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

  

  Virginia Foxx
  • Becoming
  • Skins
  • Stem

• 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
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Humans

• I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Capable

• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Courage
  • Madness
  • Capable

• Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy fidelity I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

  

  Claude Cahun
  • Lying
  • Individualism
  • Fidelity

• When you think that you are done you're only 40% in to what your body's capable of doing.that's just the limits that we put on ourselves.

  

  David Goggins
  • Think
  • Limits
  • Ourselves

• I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

  

  Moshe Sharett
  • War
  • Chance
  • Independence

• I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Matter
  • I Think
  • Capable

• Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Capable
  • Intercourse
  • Lilith

• Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

  

  Nasser Hussain
  • People
  • Reading
  • Capable

• I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Creative
  • Casts
  • Ammunition

• The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

  

  Geoff Gaberino
  • Yourself
  • Measure
  • Else

• Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Women
  • Capable

• When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam Fogarino. Greg ex-drummer is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Contribution
  • Drummer
  • Cosmic

• One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.

  

  John Gardner
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Novel

• Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.

  

  Charles Frederick Menninger
  • School
  • Age
  • Demand

• Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Sleep

• 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
  • Way
  • Wonder
  • Class

• We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Evidence

• Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Blood
  • Sin

• The greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Universe
  • Human being
  • Capable

• He's young. He's got a heck of an arm. I think he's capable of making any throw you want him to make. One of the best learning tools a quarterback can have is watching somebody else.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Game
  • Learning
  • Quaterback

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