If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership which is capable of compromise which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide countries like Germany which are capable of developing new technologies will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

As an actor you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us and the more we gain the more is our desire the more we see the more we are capable of seeing.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which by their analogy with other facts are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Like many intellectuals he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination Imagination is the workshop of your mind capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I like a very dry wit not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

When I go on the plane to fly home I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home home.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart consumerist choices about their own health care.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason and consuming our health than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Obama is capable - as evidenced by his first-term success with health care reform. But mandate-building requires humility a trait not easily associated with him.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

And of all illumination which human reason can give none is comparable to the discovery of what we are our nature our obligations what happiness we are capable of and what are the means of attaining it.