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Ability Quotes
"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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"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
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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."
13
"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."
10
"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."
10
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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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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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
8
"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."
7
"I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it."
7
"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."
7
"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
6
"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
6
"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."
6
"I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability."
6
"China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding."
6
"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."
6
"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."
6
"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."
6
"I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter."
6
"Nature or nurture? A talent needs both."
6
"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."
5
"I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture."
5
"Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel."
5
"Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble."
5
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
5
"The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements."
5
"My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly."
5
"There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child."
5
"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
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"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience."
5
"We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that."
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