Ability Quotes
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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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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 certainly never doubted the ability for the guys to get together and make good music, but there was so much legal business with the record company that it ended up being like five albatrosses around our neck.
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You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.
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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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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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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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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
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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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I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.
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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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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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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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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 have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.
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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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Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.
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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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Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
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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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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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Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.
