Ability Quotes - Page 28

• There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

  Will Rogers

  Party, Political, Promotion

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Heart, People, Envy

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• Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.

  Will Rogers

  Honesty, Business, Successful

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• Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Promise, Religion, Enthusiasm

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• Ability is noting without opportunity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Opportunity

  "Have You Ever Noticed? : The Wit and Irony of Every Day Life". Book by Joe Moore, 1985.

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• Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Writing, Successful, Light

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• Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Mind, Enlightenment

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• An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Real, Buddhism

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• I observe that more evolved souls are now reincarnating as women. Women find it easier to meditate and easier to develop their psychic abilities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Psychics, Soul

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• The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Sides

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• What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Survival, Enlightenment

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• A young girl is taught through the example of other women how to manipulate a man. She's absolutely correct in doing so because the job she will get, the man she will marry, the experiences she will have, are very much dictated by her ability to do so.

  Frederick Lenz

  Girl, Jobs, Women

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• Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Attention, Levels

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• Personal power is the ability to go into other planes, to cross that threshold from one dimension to another. Why do that? Because it is there to do; knowledge, power, and beauty lie in those other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lying, Power, Other Worlds

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• Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Hands, Path

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• Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Yoga

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• Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Light, Order

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• Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Purity, Form

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• Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Long

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• The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Heart, Essentials

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• The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

  Audrey Sutherland

  Real, Women, Fire

  Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book

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• One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

  Daniel Cormier

  Mma, Focus, Weakness

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• Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Toes, Turns

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• In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Realizing, States

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• In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Men, Mind

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