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Ability Quotes
"I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening."
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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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"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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"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability."
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"I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text."
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"The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing."
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"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
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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 wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good."
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"The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know."
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"He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you."
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"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances."
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"If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others."
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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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"There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second."
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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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"Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything."
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"I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives."
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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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"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 largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."
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"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"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."
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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
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"I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby."
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast."
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"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind."
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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."
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"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."
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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."
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"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
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"The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize."
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"The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully."
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"If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state."
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"NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage."
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"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."
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"What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank."
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