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Barbara Johnson

"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."

Barbara Johnson, American Critic
Ability, Patience
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"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."

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"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author
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"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician
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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author
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"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant
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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
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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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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Robert Half, American Businessman
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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

Mike Figgis, English Director
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