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

• It's just learning the game more. Just trying to approach it in a John Stockton-type of way, to where you don't play so much with your physical ability all the time. You have to think the game out a lot more. That's where I'm a lot better. I know the game a lot more. I see things before they happen a lot.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• 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

• That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ability
  • Revenge
  • Despise

• Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Habit

• People tell me I have to follow in the footsteps of my mom and grandfather, but it's a lot of pressure. I can't really slip up and mess up the name.

  

  Selah Louise Marley
  • Name
  • Footsteps
  • Mess Up

• What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

  

  Ali Sina
  • Conscience
  • Beasts
  • Humanness

• It wasn't innocent blood. To my father nothing about Amalia ever seemed innocent. He, so furious, so bitter and yet so eager for pleasure, so irascible and so egotistical, couldn't bear that she had a friendly, at times even joyful, relationship with the world. He recognized in it a trace of betrayal.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Relationship
  • Blood
  • Innocent

• The less their ability, the more their conceit.

  

  Ahad Ha'am
  • Ability
  • Conceit