Ability Quotes - Page 25

• If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Decision, Ifs, Right Decision

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• Without a goal, you cannot survive.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Goal

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• I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Believe, Luck, Lax

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• Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Motivation, Skills, Talent

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• Loneliness cannot be shared.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Loneliness

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• Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Firsts, Management, Blame

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• Your integrity is more precious than your life.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Integrity

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• A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Light, Vacuums, Kites

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• Adams first law of survival: Get even first.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Law, Survival, Firsts

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• You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.

  Randall Dale Adams

  War, Winning, Games

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• Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Graffiti, Recognition, Pathetic

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• Someday will never come and take you by the hand.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Hands, Someday

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• Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Mind, Trying, Weak

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• There is the finest line between data and evidence.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Data, Lines, Finest

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• For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Ongoing, Sacred, American Indian

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• The young British players need to take responsibility themselves for their form and ability.

  Tim Henman

  Responsibility, Player, Needs

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• It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

  Justin Gatlin

  Character, Athletic, Way

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• Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

  Bertie Ahern

  Office, Politician, Prime

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• He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore

  Les Dennis

  Uncanny, Dangerous

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• A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.

  John Brodie

  Past, Player, Effectiveness

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• The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

  Sara Davidson

  Laughter, Pain, Distance

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• You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.

  Iain Sinclair

  Business, Games, Play

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• All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Heart, Class, Secrecy

  1882 The State in Relation to Labour, introduction.

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• He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

  Chanakya

  Men, Limits, Speak

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• Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Artist, Looks, Attention

  "Anna Deavere Smith's 'Letters to a Young Artist'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. February 13, 2006.

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