Ability Quotes - Page 36

• I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

  Kellan Lutz

  Blessed, People, Shoulders

  "Kellan Lutz is a One-Woman Kind of Guy". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. November 16, 2012.

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• Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Toil, Pieces

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

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• Begin your bodybuilding lifestyle with an open mind, an open heart, a lot of patience and understanding. With the right discipline and right approach, it could be the sport that teaches you the most about yourself. It’s not a team sport. There is nobody else to count on, and you rely heavily on your own will and your ability to gather up the courage to take it on and excel. It’s up to you. Is it in you?

  Robert Cheeke

  Sports, Team, Heart

  Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.61, Book Publishing Company

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• Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

  Brian Schmidt

  Thinking, Australia, Free Spirit

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• Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.

  Tony Robbins

  Strong, World, Common

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.

  Willow Smith

  Daddy, Singing, Cameras

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

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• The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.

  Timothy Keller

  People, Problem, Humans

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• I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.

  Rachel Corrie

  Thinking, People, Wish

  "Rachel's war", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Degrees, Knows

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• The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

  Ashley Montagu

  Play, Mental Health, Criteria

  Cited in: Thomas J. Sweeney (1989), 'Adlerian counseling: a practical approach for a new decade', p. 54, 1981.

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• In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Freedom, Men

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• I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Sex, Children, Real

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2014). “Under the Moons of Mars”, p.107, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

  Evan Esar

  Should, Chiefs, Executives

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• You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

  Evan Esar

  Doctors, Giving, Judging

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• The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there?

  Roger Ebert

  Halfway There, Punishment, Ideas

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, p.516, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

  William O. Douglas

  Moral Leadership, Court, Educate

  Time Magazine Interview, November 12, 1973.

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• Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

  Vanna Bonta

  Greed, Lack Of Confidence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Mean, Energy, Recognition

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• The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country - or, for that matter, a region - to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food. How can a government, entrusted with the safety and health of its people, conscientiously barter away in the name of an economic idea that people's ability to feed itself? And if people lose their ability to feed themselves, how can they be said to be free?

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Names, Ideas

  "Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community". Book by Wendell Berry, 1993.

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• I played sometimes about as dull as you can play it. I did things the right way, you know. I think I modeled my playing ability after one of the all time greats, Joe DiMaggio. You always found Joe, when he played, you know, he always threw to the right base. He ran, he caught the ball. He did all the right things. He was an idol of mine in the outfield. He played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

  Hank Aaron

  Thinking, Idols, Games

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• The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Identity, Matter

  "Song: 'So You Want To Write A Fugue'". 1997.

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• We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.

  Don Cheadle

  Couple, Giving, People

  "Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Sir Ben Kingsley Talk IRON MAN 3, the Future of the Franchise, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Judgement, Brain, Moderation

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• I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

  Karl Marlantes

  Character, Long, Literature

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• Trusting others puts us at risk. Yet failure to trust entails risk as well. The ability to navigate through this minefield successfully is one of life’s most valuable assets. DeSteno provides by far the best account of what science has learned about how we do this. The Truth About Trust is also a terrific read.

  Robert H. Frank

  Risk, Assets, Valuable

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