Ability Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.
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What one cannot, another can.
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
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It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?
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I was confident that it would not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.
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Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
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One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.
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Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
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I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.
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The greatest ability is dependability.
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I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
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The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
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A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.
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Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.
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Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
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A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.
