#capable

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#blame #capable #energy #enough #excuses

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#backward #cannot #english #incapable #internet

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ↗

— William Temple

#capable #creature #live #man #more

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#also #anyone #capable #eagerly #else

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#already #built #capable #chosen #everyone

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#capable #equality #helping #individually #most

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#characters #complimentary #endeavor #fertilization #highest

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#capable #create #did #earth #either

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#become #capable #country #culture #global