Ability Quotes - Page 8

• A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Real

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• Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

  Fred Rogers

  Letting Go, Skills, Roots

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  1977 Illusions.

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• To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  School, Men, Genius

  "Keeping Pace" by Keeping Pace, www.guernicamag.com. August 1, 2014.

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• Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

  Rene Char

  Men, Able, Imagine

  René Char (1954). “Leaves of Hypnos (extracts): And Lettera Amorosa”

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• We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

  Malcolm Gladwell

  World, Natural, Advantage

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• Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Use, Way

  "Conversations with Audre Lorde".

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• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do

  Jack Nicholson

  Jobs, Know How, Knows

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• A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

  Stendhal

  Men, Imagination, Half

  Stendhal (2015). “The Charterhouse of Parma”, p.190, Booklassic

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• The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

  John Foster Dulles

  Running, Art, War

  In Life 16 Jan. 1956

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• Offering hope to the German people, I said that freedom from militarism would give them the opportunity, if they would but seize it, "to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace — and in time to take an honorable place among the members of the United Nations.

  James F. Byrnes

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "All In One Lifetime".

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• And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Stress, Opportunity, Race

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• I was probably born with some designing abilities.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Design, Born

  "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  Xunzi

  Gentleman, Way, Straightforward

  Xunzi, John Knoblock (1988). “Xunzi: A Translation and Study of the Complete Works”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Commitment, People

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• Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Reason, Certain

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.224

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• I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

  Jennie Garth

  Cameras, Knows, Fronts

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• Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

  Mark Russell

  Tests, Ultimate, Olympian

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• City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

  Jane Byrne

  Cities, Employee, Interference

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• A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dwarves, Mountain, Height

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium". Book by Seneca the Younger,

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• One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

  Quintilian

  Natural, Capacity, Efficacy

  Quintilian (1805). “Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...”, p.7

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• Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.

  Jay Gould

  Gains, Be Careful, Carried Away

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• I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Pride, Recognizing

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• No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Quality, World

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.166

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• The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Men, Spheres, Capacity

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith (2015). “The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories”, p.20, Broadview Press

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