Ability Quotes
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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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So too the growth of modern science depended on the premise of the individual’s ability to judge evidence and argument for himself, free from the authority— though not the argument and evidence—of tradition.
Charles Fried
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My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.
Bernie Williams
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To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.
Charles Baudouin
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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.
Thomas More
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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.
Catherine Marshall
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Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.
Owen Wilson
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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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The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
Sendhil Mullainathan
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The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
Sandra Cisneros
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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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There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.
Thomas Sowell
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How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.
Thomas Sowell
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This naturally occurring event has overtaken our ability to stop its progression.
Craig Fugate
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Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.
Cecelia Ahern
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Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.
Simon Sinek
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I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.
Francis Chan
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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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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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Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.
Brian Tracy
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I want people to appreciate talent and ability.
Michael Jackson
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
Steve Martin
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To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”
Andrew Loomis