Ability Quotes - Page 33

• The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.

  Wolf Kahn

  Artist, Color, Needs

  Wolf Kahn (1989). “Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989”

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• No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Determination, Honesty, Integrity

  Theodore Roosevelt (1897). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: American ideals. Administration-Civil service”

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• There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Firmness

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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 perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

  Ann Landers

  Perseverance, Maturity, Sweat

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• Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Mature Person

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• Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Morning, Mean, Opportunity

  Quoted in E. A. de Las Cases, Memorial de Ste-Helene (1823) (entry for 4 - 5 Dec. 1815)

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• We are loved beyond our ability to comprehend.

  Jewel

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

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• I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, People, Missing

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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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• What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.

  David

  Views, Essentials, Spirit

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• The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Truth, Believe

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• Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Philosophy, Love You

  Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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• Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Raises, Cents, Ten

  Norman Vincent Peale (2012). “The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People”, p.14, Random House

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• My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

  Brigham Young

  Faith, Thinking, Pigs

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• Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Needs, Possibility

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• Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, Want

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.26, Best Books on

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• Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Promise, Religion, Enthusiasm

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• Ability is noting without opportunity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Opportunity

  "Have You Ever Noticed? : The Wit and Irony of Every Day Life". Book by Joe Moore, 1985.

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• Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Writing, Successful, Light

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• An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Buddhism

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• I observe that more evolved souls are now reincarnating as women. Women find it easier to meditate and easier to develop their psychic abilities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Psychics, Soul

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• What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Survival, Enlightenment

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• The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.

  Alan Abelson

  Healthy, Boots, World

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• Personal power is the ability to go into other planes, to cross that threshold from one dimension to another. Why do that? Because it is there to do; knowledge, power, and beauty lie in those other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Power, Other Worlds

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