Ability Quotes
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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?
Luis Videgaray Caso
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Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
Michael Bergdahl
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I was confident that it would not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.
Calvin Cheng
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In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.
William Arthur Ward
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... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
William Hazlitt
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All cities have one key resource: the special abilities of the people who live in them. You just have to find out what they are. In the Australian city of Adelaide, for example, which is overshadowed by Sydney and Melbourne, I discovered a number of experts in the penal system. I advised them to work with these special skills.
Charles Landry
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I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players
Michael Michele
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I like the big bombastic singers, but I'm also very drawn to what I call character singers. They're people who obviously aren't very huge singers, but they've got this ability to tell a story and touch you emotionally without really using any kind of histrionics or special effects.
Boy George Culture Club
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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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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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Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us
Anthony Robbins
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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.
Seneca the Younger
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A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
Raymond Kelly
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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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All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.
William Stanley Jevons
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The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
Richie Benaud
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Do everything to the best of your ability.
Meredith Vieira
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.
Sean Hannity
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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.
Cressida Cowell
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My philosophy has always been to do the job I do to the very best of my ability and to be myself within it.
Judith McKenna
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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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It is in your power to release the ability of God.
Charles Capps