Ability Quotes
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When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
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Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
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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.
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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.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.
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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.
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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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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.
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Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?
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Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.
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Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
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Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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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.
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The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.
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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.
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When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.
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I've always had faith in my ability. It was about getting other people to believe in it. Over time, that is what has happened.
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Genius is the ability to look at things simply.
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You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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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.
