"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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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Ability, Vitality

"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

"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Ability, Sales

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Ability, Job

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

Dean Koontz, American Author

Ability,

"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

"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

"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Potential, Self, Ambition

"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."

Tom Lehrer, American Musician

Ability, Army, Discrimination

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"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, Grammar, Language, Learning

"I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball."

Football, France, Friends

"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."

Ability,

"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, Perception, Friends, Result

"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, First, Sense

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

Word, Words

"We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more."

Business, Gravity, Old, Songs

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

Wind,

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

Music,

"If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound."

Idea, Songs, Sound