Pythagoras Quotes

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

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• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Ability
  • Greatest
  • Mental

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Necessity

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dwell

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Necessity

• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Ability
  • Aggressive
  • Respected

• A private jet is not a luxury; it is a necessity.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Luxury
  • Necessity
  • Jet

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Body
  • Ability
  • Grow

• With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Find
  • Ability
  • DNA

• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Successful
  • Ability
  • Most

• What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Person
  • Look
  • Ability

• Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Always
  • Door
  • Necessity

• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Energy
  • Problem
  • Necessity

• I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Dream
  • Kind
  • Ability

• A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Ability
  • Obligation

• I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.

  

  W. G. Grace
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Couple

• Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Ability
  • Necessity
  • Dwell