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"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Ability, Feet, Man

"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

"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Potential, Self, Ambition

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

Dean Koontz, American Author

Ability,

"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

"The size of a fish does not determine its speed."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Ability, Size, Speed, Performance

"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 honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited."

Willard Libby, American Scientist

Ability, Honor, Results

"Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Ability, Talent, Expectation, Potential, Pressure

"The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be."

Jack Brymer, British Musician

Ability, Play, Will

Explore more quotes by Bill Paxton

"I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie."

Men

"In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you."

Career

"It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised."

Expectation

"It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending."

End

"You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on."

Water

"I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty."

Death

"I grew up in Texas, but that was 20 years ago. Last year, in Fort Worth, they had hail the size of softballs. We're seeing more and more powerful storms, of all types, almost on a biblical level."

Storms

"It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set."

People

"I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability."

Ability