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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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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Ability without honor is useless.
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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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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
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Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
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I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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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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