Ability Quotes
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
Tom Shadyac -
I was probably born with some designing abilities.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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He's a big body that can run. I would like him to have a little bit more ability to flip his hips and run in certain situations. But I think he can really be a good football player.
Bret Bielema -
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves.
Harry Frankfurt -
Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
Edwin Catmull -
Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.
Simon Sinek -
What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
Dani Rodrik -
No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?
Charles Lever
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A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
Harry S Truman -
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.
Harry S Truman -
I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.
Rick Perry -
If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.
Stuart Rose -
By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.
Stephen Covey -
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
Terence McKenna
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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
Stephen Covey -
I just want to thank the good Lord for giving me the ability to play the game I love.
Nick Foles -
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
Rick Larsen -
Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.
Simon Sinek -
Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.
William Feather -
I have game-changing defensive abilities.
Mohamed Bamba
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Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.
Simon Sinek -
The ability to know that your perceptions are accurate has to happen without others' validation. Intuition is not the result of diet, rituals, or wind chimes. It's the natural consequence of having self-esteem, the greatest power you can have. With self-esteem, your life can broaden into an adventure because you can know in your gut that you can handle the unknown. And you can handle helping others without fear, which is true liberation.
Caroline Myss -
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.
Sargent Shriver -
Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you are waiting.
Ziad K. Abdelnour