Ability Quotes
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The ability to Self-Motivate is a cornerstone of true wealth.
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The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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I like his heart, his effort, his athletic ability and his activeness.
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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
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Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
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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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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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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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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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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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To be able to come out to Southern California, talk football, and have the ability to also have conversations with celebrities who love football, it's been a dream, and I never once thought, 'Well, this is a lot of pressure.'
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Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.
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Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
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Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.
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Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.
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In progressive societies the concentration of wealth may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?
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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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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.
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I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.
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May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.
