“We do need our defense capabilities. It is a fact that the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that Senator [Ted] Cruz would have supported would leave us with an even smaller Air Force and a smaller Navy than the one we are going to be left with.” NeedsLeftForceCuttingAirDefenseCapabilitySenatorsNavyAir ForceCruz Author:Marco Rubio
“This is something - we have to have the best defensive capabilities. We need to coordinate all of our efforts with the private sector. We need to give them liability relief so that we can do that.” NeedsGivingCan DoEffortReliefCapabilityPrivate SectorLiabilityCoordinates Author:Jeb Bush
“We need to have capabilities second to none. We need to create a situation where Chinies know that there will be adverse impacts if they continue to do what they're doing.” IfsKnowsNeedsSituationImpactCapabilityAdverse Author:Jeb Bush
“I've been very involved in this quantum holographic formalism and helping to explore it as explanatory of the very root of our perceptual capabilities. It is postulated, for example, that this very basic entanglement, at the quantum level, at the level of subatomic matter, is really a part of quantum mechanics.” MatterHelpingLevelsExampleInvolvedRootsCapabilityQuantumMechanicQuantum MechanicsEntanglement Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not clear that we will survive our own folly, but we have a rare opportunity to do that if we listen and see the messages that nature is showing at us right now, that the finiteness of our own resources and our own planet are showing us right now.” IfsBelieveMeanUseOpportunityI BelieveClearPlanetsRight NowMessagesResourcesFollyOur FutureCapabilityAssuredRare Opportunities Author:Edgar Mitchell
“I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.” ThinkingMindSelfUseBodyUniverseCreativeIntelligentErrorsTrialsPhrasesCapabilityExhibitsInterconnectedTrial And ErrorInteractive Author:Edgar Mitchell
“We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.” LawValuesPracticePolicyGuidesCapabilityTechnological Author:Edward Snowden
“China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.” BelieveStatesPastUnitedUnited StatesDon't BelieveChinaNuclearCapability Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“To any writer: Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Many writers are anxious when they begin, or try something new. Even Matisse painted some of his Fauvist pictures in anxiety. Maybe that helped him to simplify. Character, discipline, negative capability count. Write, complete, revise. If it doesn't work, begin something else.” IfsWritingTryingCharacterTeachDisciplineAnxietyNegativeUncertaintySomething NewAnxiousCapabilitySimplifyMatisse Book:Conversations with Bernard Malamud Source: Conversations with Bernard Malamud
“If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.” PeopleIfsWayHumansPoliticalIndividualInvolvedLimitsFellowsInsightSuitsCapabilityOur LoveTemperamentWorking Life Author:Erich Fromm
“If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.” IfsCompareCapabilityRubbish Author:Strive Masiyiwa
“I think we also ought to prepare the American public, by way of informing them, that Saddam Hussein has these weapons, continues to attempt to improve their capability, and would not be reluctant to export them to other countries. So he presents a clear and present danger.” ThinkingWayCountryClearDangerOughtWeaponsCapabilityOther CountriesSaddamHusseinReluctantInforming Author:John McCain
“I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.” ThinkingGamesRoomsViewsPicksPerformancesScreensNot SureReasonableCapabilityLiving RoomControllers Author:Gabe Newell
“It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.” WorldHappensValuesIndividualProcessEvolutionPopulationThings HappenEvolveCorporateCorporationsCapabilityUnitsCorporate WorldBiological Evolution Author:Clayton Christensen
“You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.” IfsWantRealProblemTurnsGoalAchieveBehaviorMachinesWhat You WantDefinedCapabilityRobotsReal ProblemsSuperhumanAchieving Goals Author:Stuart J. Russell
“There's a whole company called Palantir that does nothing but derive and create algorithms riches to search through big data. We're not using their capabilities. For heaven's sake, some of this is just ineptitude.” DoeWholeBigsHeavenCompanySakeRichesDataCapabilityAlgorithmsIneptitude Author:Carly Fiorina
“There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of poverty is, in fact, inequality because of the connection between income and capabilityhaving adequate resources to take part in the life of the community.” PeopleThinkingFactsCommunityPovertyResourcesConcernedConnectionsIncomeInequalityCapabilityAdequate Author:Amartya Sen
“We have no other choice but to go on managing the conflict. We propose a stability plan: We want to strengthen the Palestinian Authority economically and establish mutual industrial zones and help them to develop independent energy capabilities, enabling the Palestinians to live their lives independently and have a future. This is where the European States should invest, not in NGOs that harm Israel.” WantShouldStatesHelpingChoicesEnergyPlansGoes OnConflictAuthorityIndependentIsraelHarmZoneMutualStabilityCapabilityPalestinianProposeEnabling Author:Ayelet Shaked
“Similarly, the press never tested many of the assumptions about WMDs. One of the great myths about the WMD issue is that everybody believed Iraq had them. Well, that's not true. There were a number of people in the intelligence community and the State Department who were skeptical, and many analysts in the Department of Energy were dubious about Iraq's nuclear capability. There were also people like Scott Ritter who were saying quite accurately what was going on.” PeopleWellsStatesEnergyCommunityNumbersIssuesPressesIraqMythNuclearAssumptionDepartmentCapabilityTestedSkepticalAnalystsDubiousWmdIntelligence Community Author:Seymour Hersh
“If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.” IfsTogetherFiguresPlanetsSalvationWorking TogetherCapabilityEmbodimentGist Author:Matt Corby
“One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS.” FightingProgressTrainingDestroyingCapabilityImprovingIsis Author:Bernie Sanders
“We do have to worry about North Korea. They continue to develop their nuclear weapons capability, and they're working very hard on their ballistic missile capability.” HardWorryWeaponsNuclearCapabilityNuclear WeaponsKoreaNorth KoreaMissilesWorking Very Hard Author:Hillary Clinton
“Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.” NeedsMeanImportantDifferentCountryEnergyHalfIssuesPicksEuropeChinaJapanDifferent ThingsCapabilityOther Countries Author:Bill Gates
“Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.” ThinkingAbleLosesSilenceContactCapability Author:Thomas Metzinger
“Conservatives have woken up to the fact they weren`t part of their team and they have a capability of having the kind of message that [Donald] Trump is delivering reach them on a very direct and very personal level so that they sign up. They are willing to go out there and work for him.” KindFactsLevelsTeamWillingTrumpMessagesDirectCapabilityDelivering Author:Ben Domenech
“The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.” TwoWarCountryAmericaFightingMilitaryWeaponsNuclearBudgetsCapabilityNuclear WeaponsSmall CountriesMilitary Budget Author:Lupe Fiasco
“I don't know what our capabilities are. If I were there, I think it would be nutty to do that. The only country on Earth more containable than Iran is Iraq. And we've certainly made a mistake there. We could have continued Saddam.” IfsThinkingKnowsMadeCountryWould BeEarthMistakeIraqIranCapabilitySaddamMade A MistakeNutty Author:Michael Scheuer
“Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist organization. And clearly it's gone from blowing themselves up to knocking down the World Trade Center.” WorldReasonGoneOrganizationTradeTerroristAlsCapabilityInitialsKnockingAl QaedaIncompetenceIncompetentWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Michael Scheuer
“Military power tends to be a function of economic power, and the British Navy was the essential capability for establishing the imperial sway - which was attuned to furnish the raw materials for the British manufacturing ascendance. So they were mutually reinforcing.” EconomicMilitaryMaterialsEssentialsFunctionBritishCapabilityNavyManufacturingRaw MaterialsEconomic PowerMilitary PowerBritish Navy Author:Charles R. Morris
“We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.” KindLittlesIdeasBigsSidesCapabilityThings ChangeClumsy Author:Charles R. Morris
“Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.” ThinkingWayIdeasFrontsLimitsBiggerCapability Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson
“Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.” PeopleWorldYearsAbleLastsCareersTechnologyGoneRocksRight NowBandComputerAccessEnormousDevicesCapabilityAmazing ThingsIphoneRock BandsPersonal Computers Author:Tod Machover
“If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet.” IfsShouldEarthCan DoTechnologyPlanetsEvolutionFutureMajorsImpactDamageCapabilityPredictionsHomeworkAsteroidsEvolution Of Life Author:Rusty Schweickart
“We think highly of men when we do not know the extent of their capabilities, for we always suppose that more exists when we only see half.” ThinkingKnowsMenHalfCapability Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.” PeopleReasonWonderHonestColorBattleConstantAfrican AmericanAccomplishmentAccomplishedCapabilityStereotypeLatinoPresumptionEvaluation Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.” PeopleWorldInspirationalKindIdeasOpportunityGivenChanceCollegeBasketballFinancialAthleteAvailableAll KindsCapabilityWorlds ApartBasketball Is LifePro Athlete Author:Michael Jordan
“Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.” HelpingBodyHurtAbilityConsciousnessHigherDepthYour BodyCapabilityPostureHigher Consciousness Author:Bryan Kest
“I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that.” VideoCuriousCapabilityEditingIphoneVideo Editing Author:Casey Neistat
“I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov do Twyla Tharp's Sinatra Suite on PBS. I have no numbers to prove it, but I bet that kids who saw that loved it. I think you will see younger dancers, who certainly have the artistic sense and capabilities, start going back to romantic numbers.” ThinkingKidsNumbersSawsProveArtisticDancerCapabilityProve ItPbs Author:Gene Kelly
“Having inborn capabilities doesn't matter. Whether you can manage them or not, that's what determines the victory or defeat.” MatterVictoryDramaDefeatDetermineManageCapability Author:Hong Jin-joo
“The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.” IfsKnowsImportantEnoughFactsWould BeTodaySongLanguageSoundMy OwnPiecesStupidHigherImportant ThingsHorribleDistractionCapabilityEnglish LanguageExpressivePopular Song Author:Alan Bishop
“Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves to other people. You are not inferior or superior to any human being...You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are 'number one' when you do the best you can with what you have.” PeopleHumansProblemHuman BeingsNumbersMistakeDetermineSuperiorsCompareAccomplishmentCapabilityInferiorsDo The BestComparing YourselfComparing Yourself To Others Author:Zig Ziglar
“When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.” ChildrenArtSaidKidsSchoolArtistLeftBrainStruggleCollegeSonPleaseMajorsHigh SchoolMathAcceptedMy ChildrenMy SonDisappointedCapabilityArt SchoolAdvisorsLeft And RightBeing Accepted Author:Frank Gehry
“I stopped playing in the Masters in 2004, I stopped playing in the Par-3 [Contest], and now it's time to end this part of my Masters career. I would love to go on doing it forever, but I don't have the physical capability to hit the shot the way I would want to hit it. So I'll have to be content to watch.” WayWantEndsCareersWatchesForeverMastersGoes OnShotsCapabilityContests Author:Arnold Palmer
“I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.” ThinkingDifferentGuyGivenSadnessCircumstancesCapabilityReally GreatThis Guy Author:Chukwudi Iwuji
“There are some pretty obvious ways of benchmarking creativity. One way is to perform what I call a creativity audit, which is to look at your capabilities and look at your performance and examine the percentage of revenue that comes from products that are less than five years old, less than three years old and that are current with the present accounting period. You can then compare those figures to those of your competition along the same axes.” WayYearsLooksThreeCreativityFiveFiguresProductsPeriodsPerformancesCompetitionCurrentsObviousOne WayCompareFive YearsThree YearsCapabilityRevenuePercentagesAccountingFive Year OldsAxesThree Year Olds Author:John Kao
“Obviously Muslim societies, like societies elsewhere, are becoming increasingly urban, many are becoming industrial, but since so many have oil and gas, they don't have a great impetus. But again, the revenue that natural resources produce gives them the capability and so countries like Iran are beginning to develop an industrial component.” GivingCountryNaturalProduceBecomingResourcesOilGasIranCapabilityElsewhereUrbanComponentsRevenueNatural ResourcesImpetusOil And Gas Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.” CountryMiddleMilitaryPositionWeaponsIncludingIsraelEastNuclearCapabilityMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsEasternSurpassingSmall Countries Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.” BelieveI BelieveCreaturesCapabilityInheritance Author:Jane Goodall
“Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy.” LooksHardUseExcuseLazyCapabilityUnderestimateOverestimate Author:Tenzin Palmo