Ability Quotes
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Ability is noting without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.
George Stillman Hillard
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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
Wang Yangming
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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
Richard Rohr
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Many times, I like to read the script before I even know who they want me to play, so I can read it and really enjoy it as an audience member. I think that's given me the ability to ferret out the really special scripts from all the rest.
William H. Macy
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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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The quarterbacks who are picked in the first round and are declared - and I don't like the word - busts, it's not that the scouts were wrong about their ability or their potential. But commitment is such a huge part of it.
Archie Manning
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The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.
Charlie Jane Anders
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If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and less experienced. The good part about that is that you're unlocking this ability to start a company to so many more people. That's an amazing positive. The negative is they're coming to that job with dramatically less experience than they've ever had. So there needs to be someone around the table that can then help them.
Chamath Palihapitiya
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I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality.
Michael Jackson
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The power of god has given men the ability to realize that he does not exist.
Andre Santos
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I have game-changing defensive abilities.
Mohamed Bamba
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Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.
Jimmy Carter
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Producing the vibration of love is based on your ability to feel deep pain...go into those feelings...and to find peace once again.
Barbara Marciniak
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Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
Rick Larsen
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
Bill Crawford
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I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
Richard Pryor
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The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of chords and was able to make a three-piece band sound absolutely huge. From the moment Hendrix and the Experience came on the scene, power trios had their work cut out for them.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
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Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.
Simon Sinek
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From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
Ernest Lawrence
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Simblefield, whose ability to camouflage his ignorance was held in well-justified contempt by the rest of the form.
Edmund Crispin
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I want people to appreciate talent and ability.
Michael Jackson
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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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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
Sarah Addison Allen