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Ability |
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“Skill to do comes from doing." |
| -- R. W. Emerson |
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"Ability is what you're
capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines
how well you do it." |
| --
Lou Holtz (b. 1937), American football coach
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| "The ability to ask the right question is more than half the
battle of finding the answer." |
| -- Thomas John Watson, Sr. (1874-1956), American business executive |
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| “Consider
the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick
to one thing till it gets there.” |
| -- Josh Billings (1818-1885), American comic
essayist |
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| "Vitality shows not only in the ability to
persist, but in the ability to start over." |
| -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940),
American novelist |
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"I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious
endeavor." |
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-- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), American writer, naturalist |
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| “Vitality
shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start
over.” |
| -- F. Scott Fitgerald (1896-1940), American
novelist |
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the
ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be
done, whether you like it or not." |
| -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist |
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| "If money is your hope for independence
you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have
in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and
ability." |
| -- Henry Ford (1863-1947), American
industrialist |
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| "The truth does not change according
to our ability to stomach it." |
| -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-64),
American writer |
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| "I come to the office each morning
and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my
ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any
better." |
| -- Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), American 33rd
US President |
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| "Human beings, who are almost unique
in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also
remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." |
| -- Douglas Noel Adams (b. 1952),
British writer |
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| "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be
tough enough to follow through." |
| -- Rosalynn Carter (b.
1928), American US First Lady, wife of Jimmy Carter |
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| "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure
without losing your enthusiasm." |
| -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister, author |
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| “If we all did the things we
are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” |
| -- Thomas Edison (1847-1931), American inventor |
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| "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one,
that proves you have a sense of humor." |
| -- Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969), American writer, editor |
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“Ability
may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.” |
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-- John Wooden (b. 1910), American
basketball coach |
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| "When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or
sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than
the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." |
| -- James Earl Jones (b. 1931), American actor |
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| "The truth does not change according to our ability to
stomach it." |
| -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-64),
American writer |
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| "He
is able who thinks he is able."
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| --
Buddha (563?-483? BC), Indian philosopher and founder of
Buddhism
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"From each, according to his ability; to each, according to
his need."
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-- Karl Marx
(1818-1883), German philosopher
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| "Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves." |
| -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), American 16th
US president |
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| "It is our duty as men and women to
proceed as though limits to our ability do not exist." |
| -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French
philosopher |
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| "During my eighty-seven years I have
witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none
of them has done away with the need for character in the individual
or the ability to think." |
| -- Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965), American
stock broker, public official |
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| "You cannot teach a crab to walk
straight." |
| -- Aristophenes (448-388 BC), Athenian
playwright |
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| "Natural ability without education has
more often attained to glory and virtue than education without
natural ability." |
| -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 AD), Roman
writer, statesman |
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| "Ability is developed. Effort come from
the heart. Effort leads to ability. Ability does not lead to effort.
Effort leads to success. Ability does not lead to success without
effort. " |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952- ),
American writer |
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| "It is important to do what you don't know
how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from
learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to
focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos,
start chaos." |
| -- Carlos Castaneda (1931- ), American
anthropologist and writer |
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| "The test of a first-rate intelligence is
the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time,
and still retain the ability to function." |
| -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940), American
writer |
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| "Ability is of little account without
opportunity." |
| -- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821), French
emperor and general |
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| "I think that God in creating Man somewhat
overestimated his ability." |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900), Irish writer |
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