Ability Quotes
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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
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I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.
Neil Diamond
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The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.
David Plowright
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Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Brian Tracy
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The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.
Brian Tracy
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The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
William Falconer
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You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
Willard Libby
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Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Stevie Wonder
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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad Ha'am
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There's still a fan core out there that's not going to let him off the hook. They're not going to give him the grace and the ability to get himself off the hook and into the fans' favor.
Phil Jackson
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Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.
Shinichi Suzuki
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Information overload hampers our ability to understand novelty when we see it.
Amy Webb
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts." "Let God's promises shine on your problems." "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.
Brian Tracy
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I was thinking about … how disarming is the ability to make people laugh. It’s a gift, mimicry, but it’s not acting; in a way it’s the opposite of acting, which is why comedians are seldom good actors. There’s an element of exaggeration in the imposture; the copy is the original painted with a broad brush and it can be grotesque, even cruel. But no one is offended. People are drawn to the funnyman who can imitate a politician or a famous actor or an ethnic type, especially his own ethnic type.
Valerie Martin
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These guys don't have all the physical ability but they are able to win basketball games because they play the right way.
Allen Iverson
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What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
Austin Farrer
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca
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The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence.
Albert Bandura
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Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
Lou Holtz
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The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.
Billy Davies