Ability Quotes - Page 29

• Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Opportunity, Use, Want

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• Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

  Dan Pallotta

  Exercise, Stronger, Truth Is

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• Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves

  Rorion Gracie

  Victory, Jiu Jitsu, Serious

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• And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

  Zoe Kazan

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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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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• Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Self Confidence, Decision, Belief

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Handbook for Preclears”, p.264, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

  Chuck Grassley

  Believe, Needs, Have Faith

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• When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

  Henry Flynt

  New York, Insecure, Artist

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• Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

  Edward Klein

  Skills, Littles, Fantastic

  "Edward Klein on 'The Amateur,' Obama's Faith". Interview with Paul Stanley, www.christianpost.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

  Michael Gungor

  Believe, Energy, Honestly

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2013

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• You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Starting, Ability To Change

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• Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the mind all the time, even in the midst of the busiest activities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reflection, Meditation

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• Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Thinking, Oneness

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

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• A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

  Christian D. Larson

  Men, Creative, Endurance

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• What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

  Mark Gevisser

  Men, Weak, Populism

  "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, May 12, 2009.

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• What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wisdom, Mind, Use

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• What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Opportunity, Views

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• The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Car, Secret

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• I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

  Benjamin Carson

  Ideas, Pay, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

  James Hunter

  Power, Might, Force

  James C. Hunter (2004). “The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader”, p.53, Crown Business

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• Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.

  Derek R. Audette

  Country, Lying, Believe

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• Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve, the more power you will pick up and the more knowledgeable and balanced you will become.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Faster, Knowledgeable

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• To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

  Samuel Johnson

  Flower, Mean, Science

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.76

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• Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Balance, Mindfulness

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Goal, Way, Good Intentions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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