Quotes by ability
Quotes 31 till 45 of 278.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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Accountability breeds response-ability.
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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Source: Op Broadway in Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance 2004 -
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do -
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
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Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
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