"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."

Ability, Honor, Results

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"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."

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"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

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"I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep."

Harold Wilson, English Statesman

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"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."

Francis Ford Coppola, American Director

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"I feel pretty confident in my own ability."

Gerry Beckley, American Musician

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"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."

Earl Wilson, American Journalist

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"I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep."

Megan Fox, American Actress

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"I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer."

Teresa Wright, American Actress

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"The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another."

Fred Frith, English Composer

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"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts."

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"The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom."

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"We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes."

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"True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person."

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"And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement."

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"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."

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