Ability Quotes
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
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“The sociological imagination refers to the ability of some to learn—often with good luck or coaching or perhaps with formal schooling—to realize that, just as often, one’s personal troubles are in fact public issues.”
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Many children from troubled families have difficulty relaxing and having fun. Ability to be spontaneous and to play is a need and a characteristic of our Child Within.
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Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.
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Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
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I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
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Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.
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Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.
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Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
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The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal
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Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being - not a constant state - that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.
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Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.
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My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.
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Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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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.
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... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.
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Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.
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The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.
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Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.
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Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?
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Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.
