Ability Quotes - Page 19

• It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

  Criss Jami

  Finding Yourself, Special, Stills

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.91, Criss Jami

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• He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he receives it according to his own capacity as recipient. The Bread of Life (cf. Jn. 6:35) gives Himself in His love to all who ask, but not in the same way to all; for He gives Himself more fully to those who have performed great acts of righteousness, and in smaller measure to those who have not achieved so much. He gives Himself to each person according to that person's spiritual ability to receive Him.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Bread Of Life

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• So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.192, Penguin

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• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

  Mara Liasson

  School, Law, Bridges

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• If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Sports, Athletic, Waste

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

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• I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

  Joel McCrea

  Roles, Good Enough, Turned Down

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• I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.

  Leslie Moonves

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "Cbs Chief Isn't Worried About Youtube Or Google — 'as Long As We Get Paid'". Interview with Frank Rose, www.wired.com. May 16, 2007.

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• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  Nate Mendel

  Sex, Practice, Hiv

  "Foo Fighter Fires Back" by Nate Mendel, www.motherjones.com. October 03, 2000.

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• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  Barry Mann

  Successful, Songwriting, Innate

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

  Bill McCartney

  Dna, Born Again, Term

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• For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

  James McGreevey

  Honest, Loved Ones, Closets

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• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  Vernor Vinge

  Information, Natural, Increase

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• I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

  Rebecca Wells

  Kindness, Car, Stories

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• I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.

  Rebecca Wells

  Children, Character, Writing

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• When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

  Rebel Wilson

  Girl, Art, Thinking

  "Rebel's Secrets To Super Confidence!" by Maura Kutner, www.seventeen.com. April 1, 2013.

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• All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.

  Rebel Wilson

  Hate, School, Math

  "‘Bachelorette’ Funny Lady Rebel Wilson: 'I pick up the roles other actresses don’t want'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

  Richard Widmark

  Attention, Use, Stones

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• What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

  Samuel West

  Believe, Air, Issues

  "The Guardian profile: Sam West" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

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• I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Different, Culture

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• Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.

  Katherine Paterson

  Reading, Imagination, Creative

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• We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs... Doubles are almost better. I mean, home runs are great, but when you've got guys who smack those doubles, you're in good shape, you've got a lot of guys in scoring position.

  Ned Yost

  Running, Home, Mean

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• Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.

  Steven Pinker

  Hands, Hot, Use

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• The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Organization, Size, Related

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• The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hands, Soul, Wish

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• You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Men, Community, Given

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