William Barclay Quotes
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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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.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there.
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Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
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When sorrow is deepest...then the surface crust is pierced, and consolation wells up, and all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
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The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.
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I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
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Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'
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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
