Quotes: ability
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John Wooden
American basketball player and head coach
1910-2010
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
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A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Ability without honor is useless.
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Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant
1870-1965
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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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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A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
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A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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