Ability Quotes
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More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.
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The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.
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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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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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If I'm in the business of making artwork that is designed on some level to sell a product, then I have to be very comfortable with the people I'm working with and I'd like to be proud of the end result regardless of its sale-ability.
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Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.
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When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
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My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
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An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.
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What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?
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Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.
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When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.
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I am thankful that God gave me the ability to write!
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I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
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I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.
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Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
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Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.
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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.
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Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
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My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.
