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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."
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"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability."
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"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn."
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"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."
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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."
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"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."
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"I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle."
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"I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability."
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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
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"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
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"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man."
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"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."
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"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."
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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
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"The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements."
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"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."
48
"Nature or nurture? A talent needs both."
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"By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person."
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"The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate."
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"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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"The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it."
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"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."
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"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."
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"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."
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