Best capable & would-be Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Enough Whole Would Be Running Jobs Party Trouble Team Capable Apples Executives Good Enough Bus Successors

Author:Steve Jobs

“I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.”

Men Feels Children Book Would Be Written Strange Capable Ashamed Instruction Raising Children Strange Man

Book:The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.”

Source: Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues

“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”

People Knows Feels Should Mind Stories Feelings Happens Would Be Able Sides Emotion Needed Capable Sitting Concerned Tables Oneself Intellect Noble Affected Colossal

Author:John Ruskin

“All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?”

Kind Would Be Care Nations Race Cities Groups Mankind Capable Spring Ideals Belonging

Author:Louis Dudek

“You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.”

Would Be Action Capable Amazed

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.”

Ideas Would Be Powerful Steps Capable Tiny Enormous Range Explaining Inexplicable

Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.”

Ifs Would Be Buddhism Capable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.”

Ifs Would Be Liberty Poverty Capable England Revolutionary Destroying Abolish Bloodshed Revolutionary Change

Book:The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White

Source: The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White

“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”

Kind States Helping Would Be School Girl Memories United Effort Cities Boys United States Taught Capable Honorable Memorial Monument Livelihood Great Cities

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything.”

People Ifs Feels Persons Would Be Faces Joy Capable Horrible Emptiness Premises Gamble Paralysis Happiness Love Miscalculations Emptiness Inside

Author:Vladimir Bartol

“The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.”

Thinking Would Be Animal Creation Poet Capable Active Bored Boredom Theme Lazy Subtle Maxims Great Poet

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would be worth more in dollars and cents to have the goodwill of the working force than of those on the outside. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the average working force is capable of increasing its production 25% or more whenever the workers fell so inclined. Workers animated by ill will cannot possibly give results equal to those of workers animated by goodwill. The tragic fact appears to be that a tremendous number of working forces are not so animated.”

Giving Has Beens Facts Would Be Force Results Numbers Equal Capable Concern Dollars Workers Average Ill Productions Tragic Cents Employers Animated Goodwill Ill Will

Author:B. C. Forbes

“I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be us. It's not that we're malevolent or evil - we're marvelous, fantastic, tool-bearing beings and capable of so much - but there are so many of us, and we don't tend to take responsibility for what we do.”

Trying Would Be Evil Responsibility Doubt Capable Garden Tools Fantastic Marvelous Taking Responsibility

Author:Michael Light

“I don't ever want to take a part in order to prove that I'm capable of doing something. It's all based in doing stuff that's interesting or working with people who would be fun to work with.”

People Want Would Be Order Fun Stuff Interesting Prove Capable

Author:Steve Carell

“I would never want to be a trend-spotter, in any field. I just think I would be bad at it. I have very limited range, in terms of the tone of the show, that I'm capable of making.”

Thinking Want Shows Would Be Term Fields Capable Range Tone Trends

Author:Loren Bouchard

“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)

“It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.”

“Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.”

People Way Giving Helping Would Be Bits Community Activity Capable Machines Cooking Busy Active Contribution Housework

Author:Jean Vanier

“It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.”

Would Be Beautiful Film Strong Black Capable Units Black Family

Author:Nia Long

“I think the contrast between these two in the professional world of cinema mattered to me. One who has reached the ultimate point of being a star, who knows how to do everything very well, facing another person who would throughout the making of the film transfer his anxiety to both of us, to me and to Juliette, as to whether or not he would be capable of fulfilling his role. This in itself created a challenge that was actually very good for me, since I hadn't ever counterposed two such performers before, creating that challenge between someone who knows their part and someone who doesn't.”

Thinking Knows World Wells Persons Two Would Be Film Stars Challenges Roles Know How Anxiety Creating Capable Ultimate Very Good Cinema Performers Contrast Fulfilling Transfers

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.”

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Author:William Weld

“If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.”

People Ifs Way Should Years Humans Would Be Wanted Waiting Religious Human Beings Capable Billions Odd Sinning

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say.”

Knows Would Be Able Poet Authority Capable Stranger Dramatic Courageous Speakers Borrowed

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”

World Inspirational Would Be Perfect Courage Capable Witness Capability

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.”

Inspirational Would Be Perfect Capable Witness Valour

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”

Ifs Men Littles Would Be Force Study Psychology Capable Standards Machines Mechanic Maintaining External Forces

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!”

Source: The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

“The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.”

World Should Mind Would Be Young Wish Realizing Groups Protect Capable Evidence Operations Dogma Strife Hostility Armor

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.”

Knows Want Kind Persons Would Be Wish Poverty Bears Capable Standing Abuse Etc Saying No Furious Told You So

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.”

World Would Be Girl Promise Capable Another Life

Author:Katy Perry

“If Paris were missing, he´d want the same guys looking for him. Seriously, the only team capable of getting better results would be Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Hannibal”

Ifs Want Would Be Guy Results Team Missing Capable Paris Get Better Jason Michael Myers Freddy Krueger

Book:Lords of the Underworld Collection 3: The Darkest Secret\The Darkest Surrender\The Darkest Seduction

Source: Lords of the Underworld Collection 3: The Darkest Secret\The Darkest Surrender\The Darkest Seduction

“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.”

Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

“I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.”

Would Be Missing Capable

Author:David Nicholls

“In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.”

Source: The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings

“The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.”

Important Would Be Culture Justice Emotion Emotional Diversity Capable Social Justice Important Things Sorry Limitation

Author:Andre Gide

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