Quotes on ability
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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Arnold Glasow Quotes
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
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Fred A. Manske Jr. Quotes
I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
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People of medicore ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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George Allen Quotes
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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Jean Rostand Quotes
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
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Amy Grant Quotes
It is not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better.
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Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
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Charles Luckman Quotes
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
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Thomas John Watson, Sr. Quotes
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
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Richard M. Nixon Quotes
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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Flannery O'Connor Quotes
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Education - The ability to quote Shakespeare without crediting it to the Bible.
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Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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T. S. Eliot Quotes
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
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Anthony Robbins Quotes
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better.
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Harry S. Truman Quotes
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Zig Ziglar Quotes
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
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Max Eastman Quotes
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
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Lou Dorfsman Quotes
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Bernard Mannes Baruch Quotes
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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George Herbert Allen Quotes
My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
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B. A. Billingsly Quotes
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge
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Bette Greene Quotes
Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Rabbi Abraham Heschel Quotes
Jamforx - The ability of cramming one more utensil in the dishwasher
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Power is the ability not to have to please.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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John Wooden Quotes
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Casey Stengel Quotes