Ability Quotes
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True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
Christian D. Larson
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I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.
Judy Blume
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The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.
Bill Gates
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The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
Thomas Sowell
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I think the fact that Donald Trump is running now is the greatest to perhaps myself, and, again, Ivanka's Trump and Eric's Trump abilities to be able to run this company because he's not the kind of guy that would leave or jeopardize those people's families, their livelihoods to go do something where he wouldn't be in charge.
Sean Hannity
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The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
William Shatner
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If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.
Scooter Braun
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Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.
Seth Godin
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You have to have someone coming off the bench who has experience, knowledge and ability.
Phil Jackson
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I no longer need to rule the world, Chay-Ara. I now have the ability to change it.
Casper Crump
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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
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The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
August Bournonville
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The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.
Anthony Robbins
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Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
Arthur M. Jolly
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The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.
Billy Davies
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I want people to appreciate talent and ability.
Michael Jackson
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Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.
Terence McKenna
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The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.
Anthony Robbins