Ability Quotes
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No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.
Orison Swett Marden
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He was feeling things out at the beginning of training camp and as things went on, you really saw the ability for him to play the game at this level.
Luke Richardson
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Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence.
Ken Robinson
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Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
Gary Bettman
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Samuel Johnson
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The best all-around [running] back in the league is Jamaal Charles. He has the ability to hit a homerun from anywhere.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.
Paul J. Meyer
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If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there wouldn't have been a bad to get out of. No one could have made one. You could have written about possibility of one, but not have constructed it.
Ken Robinson
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The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.
Joshua Foer
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
Adam McKay
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When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.
Waite Hoyt
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The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.
Chad Kroeger Nickelback
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Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.
Chuck Norris
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It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.
Chuck Klosterman
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I love to show off my ability in a nice way.
Yani Tseng
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I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
Rebecca Wells
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Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
Naomi Campbell
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A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
Boy George Culture Club
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In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when i get home the only thing i have power over is the garbage.
Bob Ross
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In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
Bobby Charlton
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Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.
Dan Gilbert
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When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.
Michael Steinhardt