Ability Quotes
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We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.
Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
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It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
Aristotle
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Factor of Error: Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical. (Examples: Japanese on warplanes, Russians on the bomb, Iranians on refineries, etc.)
Charles Issawi
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I find that the more I do the more ability the Almighty gives me.
Daniel H. Wells
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I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
John Poindexter
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The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.
Rick Perry
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Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of.
Antonio Tarver
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Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
Wilma Mankiller
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The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.
Anthony Robbins
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Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.
Sebastian Thrun
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If you take away people's identity and their ability through the ballot box to determine their future, don't be surprised if they turn to extremes or violence or anything else.
Nigel Farage
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The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.
Bill Gates
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Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.
Gene Spafford
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I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.
Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus
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The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
Ann Lewin-Benham
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I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.
William F. Schulz
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I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged other subjects.
Eve Arnold
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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino
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Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.
Ernie Harwell
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
Seneca the Younger