Ahad Ha'am Quotes

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad Ha'am

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• For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney – client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Ability
  • Privilege
  • Case

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • People
  • Ability
  • Pay

• Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Song

• Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Different
  • Success

• Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Ability

• You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Ability

• Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Goal
  • Goals

• Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Leadership

• The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Quality
  • Courage

• When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Eyes

• God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• All these provisions will weaken our ability to protect endangered species, ... while encouraging more costly litigation and draining money from important conservation measures.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Important
  • Money
  • Ability

• Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Unique

• They've got so much athletic ability. They can go outside and pressure the ball. Not too many teams can keep my guards in check because my guys are quick. But they did a good job keeping them out of the lane.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Ability
  • Pressure
  • Ball

• Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.

  

  Noel Coward
  • Manifestation
  • Inferiority
  • Conceit

• I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Play
  • Ability
  • Musician

• I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Together
  • Window
  • Dirt

• The less their ability, the more their conceit.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • Ability
  • Conceit