Ability Quotes
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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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The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.
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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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I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.
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Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us
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Power is the ability to afford not to learn.
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A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
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I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
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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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Do everything to the best of your ability.
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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.
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The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.
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It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight.
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Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
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I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.
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A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.
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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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The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.
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All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.
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He felt that both parts of his life were continually ‘spying on each other’, and developed the ability to step into and out of either world.
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I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.
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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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The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
