Ability Quotes - Page 23

• It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Book, Thinking, World

  Rudyard Kipling, “Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal”

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• Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

  Tom Peters

  Limits, Committed, Wells

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• Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mistake, Lying, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.55, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

  Sigmund Freud

  Health, Two, Imagination

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• As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

  Stephen Covey

  Meaningful, Commitment, What Matters

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• You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

  Charles Kennedy

  Jobs, People, Decision

  "Kennedy defends his style" by Oliver King, Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

  Tennessee Williams

  Talent, Get Away

  Tennessee Williams (2013). “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

  George Lucas

  Art, Powerful, Greatness

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

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• You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

  Brian Tracy

  Achievement, Quality, Degrees

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• Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

  Warren Buffett

  Player, Bridges, Investing

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• Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Important, Persons

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• As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

  Harvey Mackay

  Moving, Selling, Conversation

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition … we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.

  Gregory Bateson

  Running, Pride, Thinking

  "Culture Contact and Schismogenesis". "MAN" Journal, Vol. 35, December, 1935.

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• Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Giving, Doe, Finals

  Ludwig Von Mises, Israël M. Kirzner (1982). “Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises”, Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books

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• The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Thinking, Class

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• Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

  David Hume

  Men, Luxury, Generosity

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

  Ray Charles

  Faith, Teenager, Motorcycle

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.35, Da Capo Press

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• When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Movie, Girl, Book

  "A Woman We Love: Jennifer Aniston" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

  Robert Henri

  Education, School, Winning

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.

  Guy Finley

  Character, Greatness, Two

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• Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

  Michael Palin

  Men, Laughing, Straightforward

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• Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Stars, Father, Eye

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• I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

  Don Henley

  Desire, Want, Talent

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• Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

  John Cleese

  Creativity, Intelligent, Example

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• As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Fear, Roots, Evil

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