Ability Quotes
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Donald Trump has this ability to reach out and touch the beast inside so many people.
Allan Nairn
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To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
Garry Winogrand
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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.
Steve Martin
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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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Do everything to the best of your ability.
Meredith Vieira
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We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.
Monica Crowley
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I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.
Shinichi Suzuki
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It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.
Calvin Jillson
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I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
Serge Lang
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There was something else at stake, and it was probably of more consequence in the long run than any of the previous considerations. This was the question of whether the country could regain the ability to settle Presidential elections without the resort to force.
C. Vann Woodward
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I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.
Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
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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.
Barry Hughart
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The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
William Ickes
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Indeed, what says more: the few lines of a tightly written poem or a volume of analytical comments on it? The communicative ability of artifacts depends on how the work of negotiating meaning is distributed between reification and participation.
Etienne Wenger
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.
William Hazlitt
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I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.
Susan Boyle
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The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.
Bill Gates
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My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.
Michael Rapaport
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Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.
John Whitney "Whit" Stillman
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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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I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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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.
Eloisa James
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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
Lucille Ball