Ability Quotes
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I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.
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Old age begins at the moment when a person has lost his ability to learn.
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Micro-targeting is the ability for a campaign to profile you, to know much more about you than you know about it, and then to choose exactly what to show you.
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I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.
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One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy
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This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.
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Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
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The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.
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The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
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God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.
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It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.
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Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.
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Our ability to most fully experience the divine is directly linked to our ability to most fully experience relationships with other human beings.
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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
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Power is the ability to afford not to learn.
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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
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Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.
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My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.
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When you come back like that, you've got a lot of emotion and you feel pretty good about yourself. And then when you can't come through with the victory, I think there's the ability to be a big letdown.
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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.
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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
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If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.
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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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Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
