Ability Quotes
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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.
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I don't want to keep crawling when i have the ability to fly.
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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.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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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.
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I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.
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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.
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What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
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We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.
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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.
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Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.
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Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
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Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
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Despite the litany of the sorrows of the city, we must believe in the ability of man to respond to the problems of his environment.
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When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.
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Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
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I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
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Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.
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I saw a thing about Josh - he can be quite dark and he does it really well. When people say that, it undercuts any ability you have, so I try not to focus on that.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
