Ability Quotes
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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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Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.
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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.
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The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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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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Part of Mother went with them. It is an acrobatic feat that only mothers can understand, this ability to be with every child.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
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It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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.
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May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.
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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
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I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.
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The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
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Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
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The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.
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I like his heart, his effort, his athletic ability and his activeness.
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If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
