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“I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a movie. I don't know if I'm capable of doing that though. I think I'll just end up playing Minecraft and self-destructing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Ends Self Home My Own Dog Office Capable Wake Up My Dog

Author:Dan Harmon

“I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.”

Thinking Ideas Kids Understanding Capable Adults Transgender

Author:Jill Soloway

“Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything - but I'm not.”

Ifs Want Believe Sometimes Light Sides Directors Capable Aspect

Author:Steven Knight

“It's funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people's expectations. People really only do remember you from the last thing you've done, or desperately want to put you into a position that they think you're capable of.”

People Thinking Want Different Done Lasts Remember Position Capable Expectations Remember You Remembers You

Author:Dominic Cooper

“For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.”

Able Known Capable Direct

Author:Rose McIver

“It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.”

People Needs Feels Long Art Said I Can Matter Hard Done Artist Position Judging Needed Capable Long Time Okay

Author:J.H. Wyman

“I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine and with beats. Anyone can just listen to a beat, that's boring. But when you actually perform in front of them, it's like: wow. It's undeniable talent. That's my advantage.”

Artist Talent Fronts Capable Beats Advantage Machines Boring Aliens Wow Just Listen

Author:AraabMuzik

“I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.”

Ifs Men Capable Insult Chests Infamy Villainy Withstanding

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.”

People Capable Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinary People Extraordinary Things

Author:Studs Terkel

“Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.”

Should Trying Dies Steps Comfort Capable Zone Comfort Zone

Author:Mary Kay Ash

“We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.”

Language Capable Surrender

Author:Silvio Berlusconi

“A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.”

Individual Economy Generations Capable Lifetime Contribution Enterprise

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.”

Capable Resources Definitions Enterprise

Book:The Practice of Management

Source: The Practice of Management

“And you can't find "love" because in order to find "love" you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving "love", your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that's not attainable.”

Giving Order Love Is Love You Capable Harmony Finding Love Giving Love

Author:Jacque Fresco

“On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.”

“You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable.”

Ifs Knows Heart Failing Capable

Author:John Wooden

“Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.”

People Whole Courses Difficult Practice Civilization Capable Training Series Great Things Operations Difficult Things Advancing

Book:The London and Westminster Review

Source: The London and Westminster Review

“The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.”

“Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.”

Men Earth Culture Nations Justice Moon Capable Gathering Peace Justice

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“You are capable of more than you realize. You are far more capable than you were even 12 months ago. Next year you will be able to do things you can't imagine doing today.”

Years Today Able Next Realizing Imagine Months Capable Next Year

Author:Bobb Biehl

“Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.”

“Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.”

Becoming Capable

Book:The Divine Milieu

Source: The Divine Milieu

“Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.”

Men Feels Persons Character Capable Pursue Follow Through

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.”

Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography

“The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.”

Source: In defense of Harriet Shelley

“At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.”

Mind Reality Certain Periods Capable

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results in a story with a sense of energy and direction.”

Thinking Should Kind Littles Stories Film Asks Energy Results Fiction Practice Scene Capable Asking Dollars Producers Fiction Writers

Author:Les Standiford

“Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.”

Happens Wonderful Offers Capable Realization Trusted Whatever Happens

Book:Perseverance

Source: Perseverance

“Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.”

Needs Energy Modern Capable Organization Wounds Heal Manage Collectives Healer

Author:Terrence E. Deal

“Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.”

World Real Done Kids Given Technology Economy Capable Green Climate Climate Change Cleaners Green Technology

Author:John McCain

“Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.”

Men Attitude Capable

Author:Martin Buber

“We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.”

Mean Doe Imagine Events Capable Connected Explanation Memories Dreams Reflections

Book:Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal

Source: Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal

“... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.”

People Strong Capable Madness Probability Accusation

Book:God Knows

Source: God Knows

“Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.”

Today Left Understanding Simple Car Capable Instruction Primitive Robots

Author:John Thomas Sladek

“The free market exists to promote prosperity and human life, and that is what it has accomplished, splendidly, with breathtaking brilliance. In the industrialized world, the average person today enjoys a standard of living superior to that of kings and emperors of the past. The whole world's population is capable of enjoying the same marvelous results, if it adopts economic freedom.”

“Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.”

Source: The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)

“Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc'-ra-cy): A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.”

Government Wealth Numbers Members Capable Paid Producers Goods Goods And Services Systems Of Government

Author:Morgan Philpot

“An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.”

Art Pleasure Subjects Objects Produce Findings Capable Productions

Author:Karl Marx

“When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.”

Believe Looks Has Beens Two Different Real Consciousness Creating Capable Illusion Infinite Mirrors Limitation Real You Infinite Consciousness

Author:David Icke

“The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.”

Thinking Knows Needs Looks Doe Turns Energy Flower Mindfulness Capable Throwing Not Afraid Garbage Transforming Gardener Lettuce Cucumbers Compost Throwing Away Radishes

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.”

People Thinking Want Today Capable Function Constitution Foolish Compulsion

Author:Leonard Read

“It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.”

Men World Social Plans Capable Folly Pencils Slate

Book:Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner

Source: Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner

“The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.”

Men States Party Moral He Man Materials Capable Improvement Vehicle Organisms

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.”

Men Process Capable Men And Women Educated Permanent Grounded Recognizing Unfinished Incompleteness

Book:Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Source: Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

“Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.”

Mind Hard Problem Answers Divine Capable Angel Philosophical Asking Solve Meaningless Organisms Equipment Homo Sapiens Cognitive

Author:Steven Pinker

“Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.”

Doe Universe Brain Capable Models

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best of all possible worlds, while governments create and exacerbate malfunctions; the other imagined that governments were somehow capable of both perceiving and correcting malfunctions by means of the printing press, provided the right technocrats are in charge.”

World Giving Heart Mean Government Differences Capable Presses Printing Correcting Printing Press Hayek Keynes Malfunction

Author:Jeffrey Tucker

“It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek to undermine their independence in every way possible. With seductive 'entitlements' like guaranteed retirement, health care, nutrition, education, and jobs, liberals attempt to lure the middle class into dependence on the state. But when it comes to those who are truly incompetent, those whose mental afflictions render them unable to manage their lives at all, liberals are suddenly transformed into absolutists for personal autonomy.”

“A crowd thinks in images, and the image itself calls up a series of other images, having no logical connection with the first...A crowd scarcely distinguishes between the subjective and the objective. It accepts as real the images invoked in its mind, though they most often have only a very distant relation with the observed facts....Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Real Facts Accepting Capable Connections Relation Series Crowds Objectives Logical Impressed Subjective

Author:Gustave Le Bon

“So actually what that was able to do was twofold. For me, it helps illustrate what DTS is capable of doing right from the beginning. And secondly, technically, it actually gave us a little bit more time so we could just finesse some effects and things like that, because when you release theatrical, you actually get a bigger window than if you're DVD when you have to have it done sooner so they can press the DVDs and all that kind of stuff.”

Ifs Kind Littles Done Helping Able Stuff Bits Effects Little Bit Capable Window Bigger Presses Release More Time Theatrical Dvds Doing Right Finesse

Author:Klay Hall