Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

NATO member states vary dramatically in their capability and in their political steadfastness.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

I believe in backing my abilities and performing to the best of my capabilities.

The most important assumption underlying HOS is that all countries have equal productive capabilities – that is, they can use any technology they want.3

Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

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.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Knowledge must become capability.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‘Don’t do this’ and ‘Don’t do that.’ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

Who the cap, fit let them wear it

I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is unugly.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with

You have greatness within you. You can do more than you can ever begin to imagine.

I love watching track and field…To see what they’re able to do, I love watching that.

Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director’s medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I’m not an actor who can just play the kid.

Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

It’s very easy to defeat someone, but it’s very hard to win someone

It is not known to many people that my name happens to be Artist

Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn but I developed confidence.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

I don’t want to be just a rapper; I want to be an artist

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.