“Over the longer term, China will grow by about 6% or 7% per year. The Chinese authorities usually react pretty quickly to unfolding economic events, and you've seen them recently change a whole bunch of policies to be more conducive to growth. They have the power and capability to macromanage the economy - to accomplish their growth objectives - which means they're pretty much going to come close to what they say is going to happen.” YearsMeanWholeHappensGrowsGrowthTermEconomyEconomicEventsPolicyAuthorityChinaAccomplishBunchObjectivesChineseCapabilityUnfolding Author:Jamie Dimon
“The "third arrow" (of structural reform) is critically important. Japan has some of the best companies in the world, and if you look at their technology, their capability, it's extraordinary.” IfsWorldLooksImportantCompanyTechnologyThirdsExtraordinaryReformJapanCapabilityArrowsBest Company Author:Jamie Dimon
“There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenBookMightWould BeAgeSubjectsFieldsTenCapabilityElevenChildren's Books Author:Terry Pratchett
“Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.” MatterActorsChallengesParticularCapability Author:Marc Guggenheim
“Let kids dream! Let them fantasize. Let them plan all these great things they want to be. Stoke it, instead of limiting what you think people can do and limiting what you think their capabilities are. And liberals, by definition, do that. They don't think anybody's capable of much. That's why government's need.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsDreamGovernmentKidsCan DoPlansCapableDefinitionsGreat ThingsCapabilityStoke Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Because now, you know, it's going to be a number of years yet before we have our own new boosters and new spacecraft to go to our own International Space Station and proceed with all the research that we spent $100 billion putting up there to give us that research capability for the future for people right here on Earth.” PeopleKnowsGivingYearsEarthSpaceNumbersResearchInternationalBillionsStationsCapabilitySpacecraftInternational Space Station Author:John Glenn
“Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the kid in one arm against the heart, so that's the left, and with the right arm they would throw. And it turns out you cannot make that calculation in real time. You have to have an algorithm set up. So these brain mechanisms evolved in order to do that, and when they evolved, the thing is that where there is a useful capability it often adapts to places it wasn't evolved for.” MenHeartRealHomeKidsOrderTurnsLeftBrainHe ManArmsCapabilityMechanismHuntingCalculationsAlgorithms Author:Howard Rheingold
“A lot of countries have advanced capabilities. And given the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and our economies to digital platforms, we have to be careful in making sure that this doesn't become a lawless, low-level battlefield.” CountryGivenLevelsEconomyLowsCarefulVulnerabilityDigitalBe CarefulCapabilityPlatformsInfrastructureBattlefieldsLow Level Author:Barack Obama
“Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef.” IfsI CanDifferentFacesEnergyProductsCapabilityStaffChefBetween You And Me Author:Thomas Keller
“Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head.” StillsShowsCapabilityThreateningLyrical Author:George Michael
“In fact, the United States is building up its trident nuclear sub fleet in the Pacific, based at Bangor, Washington to build up its capabilities to wage nuclear war.” WarStatesFactsUnitedUnited StatesBuildingNuclearCapabilityPacificNuclear WarBuilding Up Author:John Burroughs
“Traveling fast over complex technical terrain requires a high level of technical ability and the endurance to support it. These two quite divergent capabilities need to be developed over years of practice. Omitting either limits your potential.” NeedsYearsTwoAbilityLevelsPracticeSupportLimitsComplexesEnduranceCapabilityHigh LevelDivergentTerrainOmitting Author:Steve House
“It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.” PeopleIfsHelpingKidsAbleSchoolMovingLawBlackCommunityViewsClassMiddleProgramIncomeDiscriminationMoving ForwardRight ThingMiddle ClassCapabilityEnforcementHelping PeopleVigorousDoing The Right ThingHave ConfidenceBlack CommunityAnti Discrimination Author:Barack Obama
“Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there.” KnowsWellsGovernmentCareEasySimpleIdealsOrganizationWorkersPrimariesHealth CareHospitalsCapabilitySimple ThingsSuppliesBasicsStrengthening Author:Bill Gates
“I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet.” PeopleThinkingFirstsHumansLittlesTermTalkingProgressMagicCommunicationKeysInternetMessagesConceptsCommunicateCapabilityTechnologicalHuman HistoryTelepathySmartphonesExchangingConstantly Learning Author:Edward Snowden
“[Bill] Binney will argue with you all day about ThinThread, but his idea was that it would collect everything about everybody but be immediately encrypted so no one could read it. Only a court could give intelligence officials the key to decrypt it. The idea was to find a kind of a compromise between [privacy rights and] the assertion that if you don't collect things as they happen, you won't have them later - because what the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation.” IfsWantGivingKindIdeasHappensRightsKeysBillsCourtArguingCompromiseOfficialsPrivacyCapabilityInvestigationAssertionNsaRetrospective Author:Edward Snowden
“What the NSA really wants is the capability of retrospective investigation. They want to have a perfect record of the last five years of your life, so when you come to their attention, they can know everything about you. I'm not down with that, but [Bill] Binney was trying to create something like that.” KnowsWantTryingYearsLastsPerfectAttentionRecordsFiveBillsFive YearsCapabilityInvestigationNsaRetrospectiveLast Five Years Author:Edward Snowden
“A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach zero. Thus, it used to be to deploy software at scale, you had to fund a data center, buy a set of servers, storage, and networking gear, build an in-house IT management capability, and buy an expensive stack of enabling software before you could even get started. Now you can get all that from Amazon or Microsoft on a pay-as-you-grow model.” UsedHouseGrowsPayTechnologyCostApproachModelsManagementScalesUsed To BeDataExpensiveFundZeroSoftwareCapabilityNetworkingGearsMicrosoftScarceAmazonEnablingStorageDisruptiveServerData Centers Author:Geoffrey Moore
“Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.” ProblemBehindsSecurityMilitarySeriousEuropePopulationInternalsCapabilityCompetitivenessDemography Author:Viktor Orban
“An oral society develops both sides of your brain, and the utilization of your brain is more complete than in a linear education module. The written word limits your brain capability by immediately focusing on one area. You don't have any peripheral vision. It immediately divorces you from the environment.” SidesBrainVisionEnvironmentWrittenLimitsAreasDivorceCapabilityBoth SidesLinearWritten WordUtilizationPeripheral Vision Author:Russell Means
“When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.” ThinkingKnowsMilitaryBudgetsCapability Author:Barack Obama
“I think the Russians basically don't think the North Koreans and the Iranians have the capabilities to get weapon systems that can threaten them, or that if they do the Russians know how to handle them and that that's the reason that it's all the more important that Russians be involved in the sale of high-end conventional weapons, the Bushehr nuclear reactor in the case of Russia and Iran, and similar kinds of relationships.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindImportantEndsReasonCasesKnow HowInvolvedWeaponsNuclearRussiaHandleIranCapabilityConventionalNorth KoreaKoreanNorth KoreanNuclear Reactors Author:John Bolton
“I wouldn't give up on Russia, and with oil at $90 a barrel, they can refurbish their strategic capabilities and under an authoritarian regime, those nuclear weapons are still there and in the wrong hands we might have a problem again.” GivingStillsProblemHandsMightGiving UpWeaponsOilNuclearRussiaCapabilityRegimesNuclear WeaponsStrategicBarrels Author:John Bolton
“I think the fitness of players is the key to success. I believe that there should be no place of unfit players in the team because the fit players also start becoming lazy seeing their routine. Having teamwork capabilities is also very important as there comes a lot of times where you have to think beyond your own interest to upkeep the national interest.” ThinkingShouldBelieveImportantI BelieveInterestPlayerSeeingTeamKeysBecomingFitLazyTeamworkRoutineCapabilityKey To SuccessNational InterestsUpkeep Author:Shahid Afridi
“You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.” PeopleIfsQualityCapability Author:Chuck Hagel
“I favor an aggressive expansion of America's intelligence capabilities domestically and around the world.” WorldAmericaFavorsAround The WorldAggressiveCapabilityExpansion Author:Jeff Gannon
“My evaluation of President George W. Bush is nothing personal. He's a lovely person. Sadly, I believe he will be remembered for taking us into war unnecessarily at the cost of thousands of American lives, injuries to tens of thousands of our troops, and trillions of dollars to our economy - enormous costs to our reputation, and undermining the capability of our military to protect us. That, I think, will be the overwhelming issue for which his presidency will be remembered: extensive damage to our country.” ThinkingBelievePersonsWarCountryI BelievePresidentEconomyIssuesMilitaryCostProtectDollarsLovelyEnormousReputationOur CountryRememberedDamageInjuryOverwhelmingCapabilityTroopsPresidencyAmerican LifeEvaluationOur TroopsUnderminingPresident George W BushLovely Person Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Organizations have to come to grips with the fact that tests of adaptive capability aren't always pleasant. Learning can be a powerful emotional event, and organizations have to be cognizant of that. They must understand that those who complete high-quality executive education programs are going to see the organization with fresh eyes after they return. Those who re-enter the workplace filled with new enthusiasm and new ideas often find a chilly response on the part of their supervisors.” IdeasFactsEyePowerfulQualityEventsEmotionalReturnProgramTestsOrganizationFilledResponseEnthusiasmPleasantExecutivesCapabilityNew IdeasWorkplaceHigh QualityAdaptiveChillySupervisorsCognizant Author:Warren G. Bennis
“This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.” TeachingKeysJudgmentDevelopingProductiveCapabilityDualityPrincipled Author:Warren G. Bennis
“Does the unmistakeable intent of Versailles to proclaim dominion over nature destroy its aesthetic appeal, as Schopenhauer thought? Does the greenness of the lawn lose its allure when we learn how much water, sorely needed elsewhere, it uses? And historical shifts in garden taste - from formal, 'French' gardens to 'Capability' Brown's landscapes, for instance, or from the elaborate gardens of imperial Kyoto to Zen 'dry' gardens - register important changes in philosophical or religious attitudes.” DoeImportantUseWaterLosesReligiousAttitudeNeededTasteGardenPhilosophicalHistoricalInstanceAppealsLandscapeDryBrownCapabilityAestheticElsewhereFormalDominionRegisterLawnsAllureKyotoVersailles Author:David E. Cooper
“The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing.” PeopleWantHappensOpportunityUnderstandingAbilityPowerfulIndustryActivityFlowThings HappenCapabilityMake Things HappenProfessional Life Author:Reid Hoffman
“Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities become possible is something we have to judge.” JudgingConceptsCapability Author:Amartya Sen
“It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.” IfsNeedsHas BeensUseSeemsMightForceCasesFateMilitaryMessagesWeaponsOppositesPressureIraqDrivenNuclearBombsAcquireIranCapabilityNuclear WeaponsSyriaKoreaNorth KoreaLibyaProvokedMilitary ForceDeterrentTehranAmerican MilitaryMight Use Author:Richard A. Falk
“We live in a state-centric world faced with global-scale problems that cannot be met by the actions of single states, no matter how powerful, if assessed from the perspective of military capabilities.” IfsWorldMatterStatesProblemActionPowerfulMilitaryPerspectiveMetsScalesCapability Author:Richard A. Falk
“I regret that the presentation I made at the UN turned out to be wrong. It was wrong on the stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but pretty much right on intentions and capabilities.” MadeRegretWeaponsMassDestructionIntentionCapabilityPresentationWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionI Regret Author:Colin Powell
“The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society.” PeopleNeedsShouldWholeWould BeValuesWealthAcceptingClassModernFairsRelationPrioritiesSatisfiedCommunismContributionCapabilityAspireMarxismMonetaryModern SocietyContribution To Society Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.” NeedsOpportunityTalentCapability Author:Kathrine Switzer
“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” KnowsMenCourageKnow HowBecomingCapableEvery ManThriveCapabilityGetting HighCreating Fear Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“The system has evolved to protect parties from people like Donald Trump. It really is true that people without well-established public records, without proven capability in public service, without tested beliefs and at least apparently under the influence of a foreign power, such people are screened out by major parties.” PeopleBeliefPartyInfluenceProtectCapabilityPublic Service Author:David Frum
“NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything - resourcing, capabilities.” PoliticalTermCapabilityNato Author:Michael T. Flynn
“Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes against ISIS when they threaten the Shia areas or Baghdad. We need to accelerate very rapidly, and we have ways to do it, aid to the Syrians, and we need to be more active, with results, not simply inputs. That is absolutely important right now, because people are questioning our will, not our capabilities.” PeopleThinkingImportantMilitaryOptimismAidsCapabilityQuestioningStep Up Author:James Franklin Jeffrey
“I think in general technology always sort of makes some jobs less relevant, or perhaps, even obsolete, but I will say that the idea that sort of workers will find nothing else to do seems like it's way too pessimistic on the capabilities of everyone as human beings, right?” ThinkingTechnologyRelevantCapabilityPessimistic Author:Patrick Collison
“There is so much closed-mindedness, there is so much closed-off thought, there is so much bigotry and prejudice within knowledge that it, I think, is stunting the actual intelligence growth of our population. Not our capabilities but our actual intelligence growth because all of the stigma that's attached to people that don't have formal educations as opposed to those who do. But the people that have formal educations have been programmed and indoctrinated in many cases, not in all the disciplines.” PeopleThinkingGrowthDisciplinePrejudiceBigotryCapabilityStigma Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think war and armed conflict is always the last of all the options you have on the table. I think you try to avoid that at all costs. Sometimes it's unavoidable. That's the lesson of World War II. I think the other lesson of the last 50 or 60 years, however, is that, the stronger the U.S. military, the stronger our defense capabilities, the stronger the chances for peace are.” ThinkingWorldTryingWarSometimesChanceMilitaryConflictStrongerWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiCapabilityWorld War I Author:Marco Rubio
“It's very clear that there are greater threats to these ships since, arguably, World War II. There are new technologies that can now reach them and make them harder to defend, such as anti-ship missiles, combined with space based tracking. The bigger issue, though, is who are gaining those capabilities. With what's going on with China and Russia, we are returning to geopolitical state-by-state competition. The Navy has not had to fight a peer for control of the sea since the Battle of Midway 75 years ago.” WorldWarFightingTechnologyBattleCompetitionThreatWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiCapabilityWorld War INavyNew Technology Author:P. W. Singer
“The best way to constrain Iran's potential movement towards nuclear capability is to have peace in the Middle East, peace between the Israeli and the Palestinians. To end the official war that still exists between Israel and Syria, Israel and Lebanon.” WarCapabilityPalestinianSyriaIsraeli Author:Reza Aslan
“It seems Kim Jong Un firmly believes that developing nuclear missile capabilities will provide security and guarantee his regime. We must make it clear that it is not nuclear and missile programs that will protect Kim Jong Un and his regime. The goal of the international sanctions and pressure is to make it unbearable for Kim Jong Un if he does not accept this fact. On the other hand, we are continuously trying to send a message that giving up its nuclear program and coming to the negotiating table is the right path for North Korea to protect itself and achieve its development.” GivingTryingBelieveGoalAcceptingPathAchieveSecurityProtectGiving UpProgramCapabilityNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities. I have a lot of faith in the entrepreneurial nature of our 1.25 billion people. There is a lot of capability. And I have a clear road-map to channel it.” PeopleBeliefDoubtTalentCapabilityEntrepreneurial Author:Narendra Modi
“There is reason to say that negotiations with the North Koreans are not easy, they may not succeed, but they may be a way of getting to where we want to get to, limiting the capability of the North Koreans to do harm to us and our allies without the use of military force and without the risk of a major war in Northeast Asia.” WarReasonEasyRiskMilitarySucceedCapabilityNegotiationNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Robert Gallucci
“China is still our largest trading partner; however, complementarity between our economies is decreasing. We had the ability to organize a manufacturing process, and then we moved our manufacturing capability to China to make use of their labor pool.” AbilityEconomyLaborMovedPoolCapabilityOrganizeTrading Author:Tsai Ing-wen