"I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind."

Ability, Mind, Quick, Sanity

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

Ability, Exercise, Learning, Writing

"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

"Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

Ability, Journey, Value

"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

Ability, Song

"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind."

Donna Summer, American Musician

Ability, Mind

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

Sidney Poitier, American Actor

Ability,

"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

Ability, Challenge, Perspective, Will

"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

Ability, Saying, Skill, Worth

"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Ability, Honor

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Man

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Business

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

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

"Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something."

"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind."

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

"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

"Ability without honor is useless."

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"The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety."

"The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world."

"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements."

"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."

"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation."

"Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it."

"We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil."