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Ability Quotes
"The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of."
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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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"You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up."
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"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it."
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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever."
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay."
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"For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late."
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"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
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"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children."
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"The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances."
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"My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations."
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"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
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"Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses."
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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."
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"I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage."
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"One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself."
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"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability."
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"The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence."
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"A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest."
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"Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty."
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"As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed."
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"I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability."
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"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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"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."
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"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."
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"Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention."
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