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

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

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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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"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

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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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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"I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability."

Kenneth Robert Livingstone, British Politician

Ability, London, Office, Will

"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."

Karen Allen, American Actress

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"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."

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

"We are capable of greatness."

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

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

"We are all capable of being great dreamers."

"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."

"I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability."

"I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York."

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"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."

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"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money."

"He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone."

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

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"Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense."