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• The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Believe, Race

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

  Jack Gould

  Singing

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• Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Confidence, Artist, Frustration

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

  Orrin Woodward

  Hurt, Decision, Pressure

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2016

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• I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Hands, America

  "A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today" by PAUL RATNER, bigthink.com.

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• What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning.

  Arno Hintjens

  What Matters, Rocks, Feet

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• As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.

  Chael Sonnen

  Regret, Real, Athlete

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• Balance, or drivability, and the ability to accelerate while cornering are more important than maximum cornering power - every time. Until you reach teh top levels of professional motor racing you will achieve more results by optimizing the package that you have than by redesigning it.

  Carroll Smith

  Motor Racing, Important, Balance

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• Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

  Carroll Smith

  Nice, Thinking, Ideas

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• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  Emerson Spartz

  Impact, Influence, Viral

  "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.

  Paul Bailey

  Writing, Self, Musical Ability

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• The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.

  Alan Abelson

  Healthy, Boots, World

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• The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Giving, World, United States

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• When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Hurt, People

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• I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

  Criss Jami

  Views, Order, Valleys

  Criss Jami (2011). “Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile”, p.72, Criss Jami

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• Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.

  Criss Jami

  Father, Son, Self

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.70, Criss Jami

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• You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

  Criss Jami

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.3, Criss Jami

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• The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

  Criss Jami

  Clever, Height, Seeming

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, People, Joy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• What may intimidate a man is a woman who thinks with her mind before she feels with her heart. Nevertheless what determines the strength in the man is his ability to accept one when he sees one.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.56, Criss Jami

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• If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.

  Scooter Braun

  Ifs

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• Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Confused, Ambition

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• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Successful, Opportunity, Men

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• One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Money, Appreciate, Situation

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.55

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