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Ability Quotes
"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."
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"Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses."
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"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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"Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity."
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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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"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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"Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone."
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"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."
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"China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding."
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"Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too."
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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."
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"So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort."
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"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."
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"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."
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"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."
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"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability."
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"Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that."
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"It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using."
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"It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder."
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"There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines."
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"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."
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"I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer."
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"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."
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"If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?"
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"I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'"
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"If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment."
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"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."
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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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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering."
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"The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing."
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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."
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"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
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