"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

Ability, Longing

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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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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

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"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

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"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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"Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that."

Brian Boitano, American Athlete

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian 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

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"Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being."

Wisdom

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

Man

"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"

Business

"Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities."

Imagination

"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us."

Consciousness

"Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day."

Life

"The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor."

Success

"A will finds a way."

Will

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."

Goal

"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

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