Ability Quotes
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When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.
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What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.
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When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.
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I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
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Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.
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Power is the ability not to have to please.
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More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.
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The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
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PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
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I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
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Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.
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I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.
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If I did not have the ability to write, I would find myself completely defenseless!
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The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
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Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.
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One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.
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The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.
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I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.
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American parents, teachers, and children were far more likely than their Japanese and Chinese counterparts to believe that mathematical ability is innate; if you have it, you don’t have to work hard, and if you don’t have it, there’s no point in trying. In contrast, most Asians regard math success, like achievement in any other domain, as a matter of persistence and plain hard work. Of course you will make mistakes as you go along; that’s how you learn and improve. It doesn’t mean you are stupid.
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Look, I think if you've got a niche portfolio or just operating in one country, like the United States, your ability to absorb the volatility is much less.
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One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly
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Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
