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

Ability, Action, Effort, Success

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Ability, Honor

"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

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"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Ability, Famous, Man

"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

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"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

"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Ability, Appearance, Guest, Play

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"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."

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"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"

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"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."

Freedom

"Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes."

Religion

"If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion."

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"None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

"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."

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

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

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

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

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

"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."

Explore more quotes by Idries Shah

"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."

"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"

"To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them."

"If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion."

"None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."

"BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL."

"One should not pray if that prayer is vanity."

"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."

"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."