Ability Quotes
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For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
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I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.
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Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
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What would happen if the markets suddenly questioned our ability to keep public finances in check? What would be the effect on growth?
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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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And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
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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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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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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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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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What one cannot, another can.
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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 great magazine is sort of a net for ability.
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The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
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Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.
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Power is the ability to afford not to learn.
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I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
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If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.
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When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.
