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

Ability, Feeling, Nothing

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

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"We are capable of greatness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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

Idries Shah, Indian 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

Ability, Talent, Focus, Mind, Stability

"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Potential, Self, Ambition

"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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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

Being

"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

Art

"One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god."

God

"Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt."

Contempt

"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

Books

"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."

Criticism

"I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."

Life

"There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost."

Truth

"Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become."

Man

"A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in."

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