Ability Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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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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Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.
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My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
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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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To me, I am most critical that we were not tough and physical. It's something we have always done. For whatever reason we didn't do that to the ability we're capable of, and that's my fault, along with my staff.
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An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
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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 worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
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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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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 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'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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The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
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I trust my ability to play in any defense.
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.
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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'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.
