"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."

Ability, Events

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"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."

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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

Ability, May, Will

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"Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving."

Politics, Deeds, Democracy, Monuments, Needs

"U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter."

Politics, Experts, Military

"When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics."

Politics, Government, President

"Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific."

Situation, Difficulty, Now

"The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems."

Life, Problems, Public, Temptations

"Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them."

Democracy,

"Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world."

Power, Resentment, Restraint, Will

"Democracy fascinates me."

Democracy,

"But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right."

Government, People, End, Right

"But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges."

Democracy,