Ability Quotes - Page 34

• A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man. She's absolutely correct in doing so because the job she will get, the man she will marry, the experiences she will have, are very much dictated by her ability to do so.

  Frederick Lenz

  Girl, Jobs, Women

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• Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Perception, Mind

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• Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Yoga

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• Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purity, Form

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• Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Long

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• One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

  Daniel Cormier

  Mma, Focus, Weakness

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• In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Realizing, States

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• In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Men, Mind

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

  Jack Gould

  Singing

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• Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Mind, Way

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• The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.

  Natalie Portman

  Pregnancy, Men, More Money

  "Natalie Portman on Her New Role: Giving Women Hope". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Crazy, Rome

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I think everyone is equally psychic. But through the practice of meditation, you learn to make your thoughts quiet and become more aware of your innate psychic abilities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Practice, Psychics

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• A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.

  Lauren Mackler

  Lying, Keys, Self

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• There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

  Allan Border

  Player, One Day, Generations

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• Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Adversity, Tests, Painful

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.405, Zondervan

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• The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Art, Mean, Way

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• It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

  Cory Doctorow

  Hard Work, Race, Age

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• Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

  Catherine Crier

  Rude, Examination, Awakening

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• There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

  Kim Gordon

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

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• That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, People, Advice

  "Gladwell reaches his tipping point", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2005.

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• You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Travel, Needs, World

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• Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Confidence, Artist, Frustration

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

  Orrin Woodward

  Hurt, Decision, Pressure

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2016

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• Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Graffiti, Recognition, Pathetic

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