Ability Quotes
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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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Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.
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I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.
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What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
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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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Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
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Smart is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
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May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.
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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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The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
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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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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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One of the most amazing abilities of sexuality is to momentarily transcend the borders of Self into something that is no longer defined by physical property and that is utterly unique. It's really what many call a religious experience.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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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.
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We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music - that is, just garage music, direct and immediate - started to feel neglected.
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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.
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I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.
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I trust my ability to play in any defense.
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I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
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You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.
