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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements. -- Lord Robertson
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. -- Edward Gibbon
For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities. -- Joe Greene
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition. -- Marc Andreessen
Since the beginning, HTC has focused on developing strong research and development capabilities and keeping a close eye on consumer, market and technology trends. -- Cher Wang
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. -- Barbara Bush
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. -- Brian Tracy
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness? -- Brian Moynihan
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. -- Jim Davis
I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities. -- Finn Wittrock
Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else. -- James E. Faust
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. -- Li Ka-shing
When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense. -- Don Nickles
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. -- Muhammad Yunus
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities. -- Daniel H. Pink
Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities. -- Mike Davidson
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. -- Michael Jordan
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time. -- Ben Shapiro
The Marshall Plan was after destruction, and the U.S. came to our help and obviously this was very, very important for the future of Europe. I think now we have all the capabilities of doing it on our own and, in a sense, we have to. -- George Papandreou
Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back. -- Maxfield Parrish
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. -- Thomas Keller
So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services. -- Kevin Rollins
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit. -- Michael Hastings
When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die. -- David Gerrold
Believe in yourself even when others doubt your capabilities. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities. -- Mason Cooley
Each of us has some unique capabilities waiting for realization. -- George H. Bender
I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities -- Fraser Young
The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities. -- Paulo Coelho
We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills. -- Mercer Reynolds
Lebanon is a small country, weak, an army with very humble capabilities. -- Hassan Nasrallah
You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure. -- Dean Karnazes
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others -- Albert Bandura
I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities. -- Emile Hirsch
An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities. -- Lee Kun-hee
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. -- Paul Wellstone
The best possible preparation of success is empower yourself with trust in self capabilities. -- Anil Sinha
You have so many capabilities & potential. Start celebrating the life God has given you! -- Joyce Meyer
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal. -- Clay Shirky
Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process. -- Blanche Lincoln
Obstacles only surface in your life to reveal to you your untapped mental capabilities. -- Edmond Mbiaka
When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are. -- Dennis Kucinich
I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities. -- Gary Snyder
If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things. -- Lord Robertson
That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever -- Chris Murray
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology. -- Robert E. Kahn
Don't limit yourself to someone else's opinion of your capabilities. Be you. Dream, plan, execute! -- Steve Maraboli
If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things. -- Lord Robertson
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy. -- Jane McGonigal
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy." -- Jane McGonigal
Demo: presentation of a specific set of capabilities needed to solve the customer's critical business issue. -- Peter Cohan
When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed -- Amy Purdy
Organizing is providing people with the opportunity to become aware of their own capabilities and potential. -- Fred Ross
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have. -- Martin Rees
Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities. -- Alyson Noel
I'm definitely curious about what the new iPhone and it's video editing capabilities will lend to that. -- Casey Neistat
Any person by nature has inherent capabilities. You have to trust your instincts and act with spontaneity. -- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities. -- Arnold Rothstein
Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects. -- Bill Gates
Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism. -- Barack Obama
Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities. -- Italo Calvino
We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world. -- Zach Wamp
Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are! -- Margaret Spellings
Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities? -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will. -- Stefan Kieszling
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution. -- Robert S. Kaplan
We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity. -- Lachlan Murdoch
The claims made about Iraq's WMD capabilities before the invasion were inaccurate, wrong, and in some cases, deliberately misleading. -- Colin Powell
Having inborn capabilities doesn't matter. Whether you can manage them or not, that's what determines the victory or defeat. -- Hong Jin-joo
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations. -- Albert Bandura
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand? -- Richard Russo
Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities -- Danica Patrick
No matter who or where we are, or what our capabilities, we are called to do the best we can. -- Wangari Maathai
You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past. -- Jordan Belfort
I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities. -- Max Walker
Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities. -- Muhammad Yunus
The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself. -- Billy Mills
In my view, Asian countries have learnt the lessons from the past and significantly enhanced their capabilities to fend off risks. -- Li Keqiang
President Obama is getting a new limousine that will have advanced night-vision capabilities. The technology even has a cool name ... headlights. -- Jimmy Fallon
People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities -- Albert Bandura
He is such a great player that he has the capabilities to let no one affect his game. (on David Beckham) -- Steve McClaren
The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us. -- George W. Bush
Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities. -- Tony Robbins
I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities! -- Jack Ma
I don't feel my capabilities in cookery are as big as my desire - as with so many aspects of my life. -- Anna Chancellor
When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species. -- Karl Marx
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. -- Paul Wolfowitz
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided. -- Albert Bandura
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition -- Marc Andreessen
You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. -- Zig Ziglar
...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution. -- Al Gore
Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC. -- Steven Sinofsky
Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce. -- Todd Young
The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself. -- Michael J. McCarthy
We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents. -- Don Yaeger
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen. -- Laurie Anderson
God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities. -- Billy Graham
We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation. -- Craig Mundie
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence. -- Nicholas Sparks
We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities. -- Edward Snowden
We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms. -- Naveen Jain
I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do. -- Brett Hull
The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you. -- Robin Sharma
During our first meeting, Tony Iommi was a great jazz guitarist, his capabilities cover all styles - Black Sabbath has even narrowed his horizons. -- Geezer Butler
One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. -- Bill Lear
I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage. -- Jacob M. Appel
Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs. -- John Bruton
All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration. -- Igor Luksic
Look at your own potential. Don't overestimate your capabilities and push too hard, or underestimate them and use that as an excuse to be lazy. -- Tenzin Palmo
The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles. -- Barton Gellman

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