Ability Quotes
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The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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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.
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Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.
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If parents and grandparents vote to leave, they'll be voting to gamble with their children and grandchildren's future. At a time when people are rightly concerned about inter-generational fairness, the most unfair decision that the older generation could make would be to take Britain out of Europe and damage the ability of young people to get on in life.
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Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.
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The ability to Self-Motivate is a cornerstone of true wealth.
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The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
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The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.
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No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?
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Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.
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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
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Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing - the ability to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
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Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
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Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.
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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
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I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.
