It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J.K. RowlingWhat is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
William ShakespeareTags: fulfillment potential abilities humankind
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
PlatoTags: empowerment equality gender men women work instruction skills abilities jobs
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Mahatma GandhiTags: optimism strength confidence possibility skills abilities capability
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
Saul BellowTags: fulfillment boredom abilities
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Marianne WilliamsonTags: success talents abilities
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
Vera NazarianTags: talent talents abilities ability able
When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.
Cornelia FunkeTags: character personality skills abilities
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: empowerment equality discrimination skills abilities career jobs qualifications
It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: success gender women history feminism misogyny hypocrisy government achievements stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés career good-governance queen-elizabeth-i reign
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