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Ability Quotes
"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
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"The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world."
112
"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability."
103
"The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements."
85
"Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems."
82
"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
78
"Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn."
73
"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person."
72
"So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime."
72
"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
71
"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."
68
"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."
67
"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."
65
"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
64
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
64
"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man."
64
"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."
63
"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
63
"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
63
"I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle."
63
"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
62
"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
62
"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
61
"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
61
"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."
61
"I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability."
60
"Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances."
60
"The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it."
58
"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."
58
"Nature or nurture? A talent needs both."
58
"By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person."
56
"I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him."
56
"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
55
"The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate."
55
"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."
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