"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."

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"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."

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"We are capable of greatness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Greatness, Potential, Strength, Power

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Ability, Act, Advice, Profit

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Ability, Talent, Focus, Mind, Stability

"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Divine, Mission, Power

"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Ability, Effort, Limit, Performance

"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Ability, Education, Talent, Body

"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Power, Spirit, Faith, Strength

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."

Charlotte Whitton, Canadian Politician

Ability, Difference

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets."

Now

"I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words."

Word

"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting."

Life

"Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well."

Wind

"It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar."

Body

"We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have."

Music

"I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends."

Politics

"There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert."

Music

"We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for."

Time

"Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them."

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