Ability Quotes - Page 29

• The universe is a giant mind. Some people have the ability to tap into that mind, we call them psychic. Others don't, we call them dull ... but they have potential.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, People, Mind

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• The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment that we experience in the modern world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Shields, Way

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• I think everyone is equally psychic. But through the practice of meditation, you learn to make your thoughts quiet and become more aware of your innate psychic abilities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Practice, Psychics

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• Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Mind, Way

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• Everything is a state of mind. Astral travel is the ability to wander through different states of mind and develop psychic perceptions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Perception, Mind

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• A fighter, a real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training, then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Strong, Real, Believe

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• There are situations where you can either rise to the occasion or you can feel sorry for yourself. Really that's within your own abilities to make that decision.

  Frank Mir

  Sorry, Mma, Decision

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• Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

  Joe Bradley

  Rooms, Painting, Moments

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.

  Natalie Portman

  Pregnancy, Men, More Money

  "Natalie Portman on Her New Role: Giving Women Hope". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Sports, Crazy, Rome

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

  Janice Tanton

  Ability To See

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• Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.

  Lauren Mackler

  Self, Not Good Enough, Childhood

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• A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.

  Lauren Mackler

  Lying, Keys, Self

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• The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

  Lauren Mackler

  Stress, Adversity, Resilience

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• It's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters. One of the things I tell people these days is that there is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Opportunity, People, Perfect

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• The ability to communicate is critical- clearly, frankly, and often.

  James D. Robinson III

  Ability To Communicate, Communicate, Critical

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• Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Struggle, Class, Mind

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• The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Art, Mean, Way

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• It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

  Cory Doctorow

  Hard Work, Race, Age

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• Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

  Catherine Crier

  Rude, Examination, Awakening

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• One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and decency, .. The considered judgment of the American people is not going to rise or fall on the fine distinctions of a legal argument but on straight talk and the truth. It is time for the president and the Congress to follow that common sense for the good of the country.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Fall, Character

  "Top Democrats rip Clinton's defense strategy". www.cnn.com. September 14, 1998.

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• There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

  Kim Gordon

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

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• That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, People, Advice

  "Gladwell reaches his tipping point", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2005.

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• You need to have the ability to gracefully navigate the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Travel, Needs, World

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• It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

  Austin Farrer

  Philosophical, May, Causes

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