Ability Quotes
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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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This naturally occurring event has overtaken our ability to stop its progression.
Craig Fugate
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I want people to appreciate talent and ability.
Michael Jackson
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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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I have game-changing defensive abilities.
Mohamed Bamba
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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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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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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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Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
J. G. Holland
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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
William Gibson
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Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.
Seth Godin
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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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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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People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
Henry Louis Gates
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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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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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If God continues to give me health and a sane mind and verbal ability, I want to teach.
Richard Rohr
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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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The ability to fight isnt a one-size fits all; everybody is different.
Melissa McBride
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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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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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The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. The proof of that is the ability of a dictator to snuff out the life of a writer.
Wole Soyinka
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In terms of playing, of course, Europe is definitely more finesse than playing in the WNBA. I think they're more skilled in terms of the overall ability. And here in the States, in the WNBA, we just kind of play off athleticism and just play.
Cappie Pondexter
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It is often forgotten today that Plessy v. Ferguson was not an isolated Supreme Court decision. In case after case, the Court reaffirmed and upheld the ability of states to enforce apartheid.
Erwin Chemerinsky