Ability Quotes - Page 21

• The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

  Wendell Berry

  Exactly Is, Speak, Knows

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Imagination in Place”, p.13, Counterpoint

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• Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

  Michael Gungor

  Believe, Energy, Honestly

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2013

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• Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Giving, Eating, Enjoy

  "A Fast Metabolism Could Make You Age More Quickly" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Thinking, Oneness

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

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• I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, School, Player

  "Robert Griffin III Prepares For NFL Draft, Talks Peyton Manning From Super Bowl 2012" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Children, Kids, Play

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• A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

  Christian D. Larson

  Men, Creative, Endurance

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• What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

  Mark Gevisser

  Men, Weak, Populism

  "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, May 12, 2009.

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• What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Wisdom, Mind, Use

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• There are two principles for creative success - one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Two, Differences

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• Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Mistake, People

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• My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me incredibly valuable lessons about the art of taking time-outs. To this day, Bonnie is astutely aware of times when her energy dips too low and resolutely honors her need to rest. To boost her energy, she's been known to sit quietly with a cup of tea, adjourn a workshop we were co-facilitating to take a five-minute breather, or slip out of her own wedding reception to be restored by a few minutes of solitude in the sun.

  Sue Thoele

  Art, Solitude, Tea

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• You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Starting, Ability To Change

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• Be grateful for your challenges, setbacks, adversity and disappointments. Be grateful for your opportunity to overcome every single one, because doing so contributes to your growth & your ability to help others overcome theirs.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Grateful

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• The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Wake Up, Waking Up Early

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 07, 2010

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• What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Opportunity, Views

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• The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Car, Secret

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• Not everyone possesses boundless energy or a conspicuous talent. We are not equally blessed with great intellect or physical beauty or emotional strength. But we have all been given the same ability to be faithful.

  Gigi Graham

  Blessed, Commitment, Emotional

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act.

  Jeffry A Timmons

  Creative, Vision, Entrepreneurship

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• Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.

  Daniel Coyle

  Inspirational, Mistake, Struggle

  "The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown". Book by Daniel Coyle, 2010.

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• Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.

  Lynn Andrews

  Eye, Power, Circles

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• Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.

  James Hunter

  Power, Might, Force

  James C. Hunter (2004). “The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader”, p.53, Crown Business

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• I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.

  Laura Joplin

  Art, Strong, Thinking

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• The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

  Derek R. Audette

  Country, War, Politics

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• Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.

  Derek R. Audette

  Country, Lying, Believe

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