Ability Quotes
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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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What one cannot, another can.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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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.
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The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
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Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
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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.
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Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.
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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
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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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The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
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I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
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Bile is not ONLY the real key to the body’s ability to digest and assimilate fats, but it is also a vehicle for removing toxins from your body so they can be flushed out through the colon.
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I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.
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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.
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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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An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
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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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A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.
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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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The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
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As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
