Ability Quotes - Page 25

• It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting

  John Newcombe

  Cheating, Tennis, Balls

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• People wonder whether I got my presenting job as a result of my own abilities or because of Gordon, which is a little unfair.

  Tana Ramsay

  Jobs, People, Littles

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• The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

  Lou Diamond Phillips

  Actors

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 12, 2003.

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• A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Light, Vacuums, Kites

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• Your integrity is more precious than your life.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Integrity

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• If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Want, Happened, Happens

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• Without a goal, you cannot survive.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Goal

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• Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Motivation, Skills, Talent

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• The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

  Alexander Crummell

  Spring, Greatness, Sky

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• No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

  Michael Scheuer

  Dog, Exercise, Thinking

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• Someday will never come and take you by the hand.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Hands, Someday

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• Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Mind, Trying, Weak

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• The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

  Tim Henman

  Responsibility, Player, Needs

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• A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

  John Brodie

  Past, Player, Effectiveness

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• Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

  Bertie Ahern

  Office, Politician, Prime

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• All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Heart, Class, Secrecy

  1882 The State in Relation to Labour, introduction.

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• He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore

  Les Dennis

  Uncanny, Dangerous

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• It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

  Ally Sheedy

  Connections, Female, Looks

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• I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

  Heinz Fischer

  Country, Law, Constitution

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• It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Meaningful, Men, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.

  Vinton Cerf

  Choices, Tolls, World

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• Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. … But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Freedom, Self, Years

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• Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

  Richard Widmark

  Attention, Use, Stones

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• Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.

  Elizabeth Spelke

  Children, Boston, Years

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• An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Choices, Ability To Choose

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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