capability enhancement Quotes

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your own capabilities. And no one can do it for you. You must cultivate the habit of leadership effectiveness for yourself - and doing so will be the single best investment you will ever make.

You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

If you're passionate about something, you can develop the abilities.

We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or how hard we try; the issue is are we doing it the right way? Are we being smart about it?

You don't know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them.

With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.