Quotes with capable

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  • Robert J. Mckain Become all that you are capable of becoming!
    Robert J. Mckain
    American author of self-help books
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  • David Gemmell By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.
    Legend (2011) 33
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable to joy.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Albert Einstein Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Lord George Byron For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Erica Jong German toilets are really the key to the horrors of the Third Reich. People who can build toilets like this are capable of anything.
    Fear of Flying
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Leo C. Rosten Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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  • Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Arnold Schoenberg I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
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  • Vaclav Havel I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Burning Spear I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bill Hybels If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Andrew Grove If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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