Ability Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Ongoing, Sacred, American Indian

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.51, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, Drawing, Parent

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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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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• Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Artist, Looks, Attention

  "Anna Deavere Smith's 'Letters to a Young Artist'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. February 13, 2006.

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• My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Character, Adversity, People

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• Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

  Dean Mitchell

  Art, Perception, Paint

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• Guts win more games than ability.

  Robert Zuppke

  Winning, Games, Guts

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• It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

  Calvin Jillson

  White, Ties, House

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• It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Students, Interest

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

  John W. Snow

  Priorities, Economic, Economy

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.

  Robert Genn

  Music, Joy, Phrases

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• Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Long, Judgment

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• Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Creativity, Ideas, Consistency

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• Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.

  David Letterman

  Sarcastic, Mathematical

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• Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, School

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, People, Decision

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• Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Comedian, Get Away, Blanche

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• We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend.

  Jewel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is only one day that you and I have to live for, and that's today. There is nothing we can do about yesterday except repent, and there may be no tomorrow. The thing for us to do when we arise from our beds as God gives us a new day, is to take whatever comes to our hands, and do it to the best of our ability.

  Harold B. Lee

  Hands, Yesterday, Giving

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• To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

  William Osler

  Trying, Care, Settling

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.254, Ravenio Books

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