#cap

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool. ↗

— Jerry Doyle

#acting #air #air force #becoming #before

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#capacity #create #endows #entrepreneurship #innovation

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#average #average person #capable #competence #developed

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#capitalism #economy #future #government #i

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs. ↗

— William Bligh

#being #boisterous #cape #fogs #free

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. ↗

— William Bligh

#cape #daylight #fires #first #first time

Soap operas are such a great way to break-in to the industry. The diminishing landscape of daytime TV means it's going to be harder for young talent to get discovered. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#diminishing #discovered #get #going #great

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. ↗

— William Bligh

#any #attempt #cape #considerable #considerably

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#capacity #deter #forms #massive #must

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#definition #examines #facts #historian #incapable