Ability Quotes
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Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
Sister Parish -
One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.
Billy Lawrence
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
Vinod Khosla -
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Stephen Covey -
In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller -
Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
Uzodinma Iweala -
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
Demosthenes -
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
Michael Zaslow
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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
Thomas A. Edison -
A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
Raymond Kelly -
My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.
Varg Vikernes Burzum -
If you’re careless and disorganized, you lose your ability to see things clearly.
Neal Bascomb -
One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.
Carroll Quigley -
This naturally occurring event has overtaken our ability to stop its progression.
Craig Fugate
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Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.
Tiffeny Milbrett -
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.
Steve Martin -
I'm lucky because I have the ability to look at the brighter side of life.
Phaneesh Murthy -
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.
Cathy O'Neil -
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action
Thomas Sowell -
The quantity and quality of your sleep plays a major role in your ability to learn new information.
Amy Morin
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Whenever someone has the ability to impact people's lives, I think that's one of the greatest things that God gives us as individuals.
Andy Pettitte -
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?
Sarah Dessen -
Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.
Rick Perry -
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Keariene Muizz