"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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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

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"We are capable of greatness."

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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."

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

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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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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."

Tom Lehrer, American Musician

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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

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"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."

Bruce Sterling, American Writer

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"You are capable of great deeds."

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"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."

Roy L. Smith, American Clergyman

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"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances."

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"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."

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"The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling."

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

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"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."

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

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"Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world."

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