Ability Quotes - Page 17

• Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

  Pete Rose

  Thinking, Concentration

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• Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Communication

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• Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

  Sanford Meisner

  Acting, Given, Circumstances

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• Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Maturity, Parent

  "This column will change your life: Is it really a case of innovate and die?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability

  Jonathan Ive

  Important, Care, Important Things

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• The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Distance, Track

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• I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Kids, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Trust, Trustworthiness, Linked

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.76, Oxford University Press

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• This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, House, Tree

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• It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been willing to admit, on the existence and support of certain social assumptions and practices: the belief that each and every human being possesses great and inherent value, the willingness to respect the rights of others even at the cost of some disadvantages to one's self, the ability to defer some immediate benefits for the sake of long-range goals, and a regard for reason-giving and civility in public discourse.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Rights, Self, Practice

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• It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Selfish, Mean, Men

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• The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Men, America

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.9, VM eBooks

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• Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Men, Thinking

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• Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Health, Everyday, World

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• Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.

  Rene Dubos

  Real, Health, Groups

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• A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

  Bill McKibben

  Style, Desire, Simplification

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• Acting is the ability to keep an audience from coughing.

  Jean-Louis Barrault

  Art, Acting, Coughing

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• I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

  Michael Chang

  Blow, Thinking, Feet

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• Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

  Doug Flutie

  Basketball, Summer, Baseball

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• The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

  Fred Frith

  Records, Way, Imagine

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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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• I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

  John Frankenheimer

  Mean, Digital Revolution, Numbers

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• Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Children, Home, Internet Access

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• Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Technology, Civilization, Thanks

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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• In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce.

  Peter Guber

  Winning, People, Secret

  "Storytelling to help your career" by Rachel Farrell, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2011.

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