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“What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.”

World Kind Stills Two Real Spirituality Sides Ability Perspective Morality Opposites Arguing Investigation Equations Elimination Two Opposites

Author:Eve Ensler

“I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.”

Individual Voice Ability Determined Collectives Essays Representing

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.”

Courses Ability Decision Levels Assured

Author:Barack Obama

“My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that.”

Way Matter Facts Stories Able Choices Fighting Opportunity Chance My Own Ability Decision Direct Decision Making Life Story

Author:Barack Obama

“The United States of America stands for: the ability for people to worship freely, the ability for people to vote and to express their opinion freely is something we hold dear.”

People States America Ability United Opinion United States Worship Vote Dear United States Of America

Author:George W. Bush

“Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks, either by positively going for certain kinds of foods or rejecting other kinds of foods, they realize that this is a responsibility and an opportunity to shape the world a little bit by their own choices.”

People World Kind Littles Young Certain Choices Opportunity Bits Realizing Ability Responsibility Issues Shapes Little Bit Vote Introducing Positively Forks Rejecting

Author:Michael Pollan

“I can`t get excited about politics, but I love it as a game. Because what I love in politics - this is very selfish of me, but who cares - what I do love in politics is this ability it has to make you think in new ways.”

Thinking Way I Can Care Games Ability Excited Selfish New Ways Who Cares Make You Think

Author:Norman Mailer

“People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.”

People Reason President Ability

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches." So I was working against my actual abilities.”

People World Want Earth Ability Liberal Arts Leeches

Author:George Saunders

“You have got to love what you're doing. No matter what it is. Whatever you undertake in life, if you don't love it, and you don't enjoy it, you are making a big mistake. You have got to love what you are doing. You have to appreciate what you are getting, and you have to do it to the best of your ability.”

Ifs Matter Bigs Enjoy Ability Mistake Appreciate No Matter What Doing You Big Mistake

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.”

People World Done Ability Work Done

Author:Robert Greene

“You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.”

Thinking Turns Culture Parent Voice Ability Teacher Who You Are Critical Turn Off

Author:Robert Greene

“A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.”

World Art Lying Ability Worst Art Is Telling The Truth Worst Things Profanity

Author:Richard Pryor

“Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.”

Way Writing Book Stories Past Natural Ability Principles Weight Integrated Premonition Heuristics

Author:Gore Vidal

“As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.”

Needs Two Left Given Chance Ability Views Teacher Feet Increase Point Of View Buckminster Fuller

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.”

Mean I Can Can Do Ability Businessman

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.”

People Knows Stills States Able Community Ability United United States Example Bills Clinton Athlete Cancer Woods Speed Fallen Britain Tigers Bans Great Britain Michael Vick

Author:Lance Armstrong

“When you give people ability to stay connected with all the people they care about, and you make it so they can express new things about themselves or in communication with other people who they care about, then you just open up new possibilities. You make it so people can stay connected in ways that they couldn't before.”

People Way Giving Care Ability Possibility Communication Connected New Things New Possibilities

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.”

I Can Play Games Ability Levels Steps Shots

Author:Tiger Woods

“The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.”

Self Ability Doubt Filled Enormous Self-doubt

Author:Stephen Colbert

“When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.”

Character Belief Given Ability Decision Conviction Outcomes

Author:Karl Rove

“Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.”

World Ability Maturity Imperfect A Perfect World Imperfect World

Book:Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections

Source: Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections

“There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.”

Thinking Feels Moments Sound Sleep Ability Baby Goes On Lucky Conversation Findings Lonely Boring Bitter Bored Paris Jealous Spares Unnatural Resent Spare Time Consoling

Author:David Nicholls

“... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.”

Ability Absence Boundaries

Book:ONE WOMAN'S LIBERATION

Source: ONE WOMAN'S LIBERATION

“Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.”

Writing Growth Ability

Author:Jane Yolen

“One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.”

Ability Greatness Mark True Greatness

Author:J. C. Macaulay

“The goal in tasting wine is not to "find" the same aromas and flavors some other taster is describing. If you hone your own perceptual abilities and develop the vocabulary to articulate them, you'll not only derive more pleasure from the wine itself, but also stimulate better communication between you and the friends who are sharing the bottle.”

Ifs Goal Ability Pleasure Communication Wine Bottles Vocabulary Flavor Describing Tasting Aroma

Author:Marvin Shanken

“Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.”

Needs Easy Imagination Challenges Memories Ability Environment Tools Wine Drinking Glasses Vivid Good Memories Tasting Drinking Wine Tilt Vivid Imagination

Author:Marvin Shanken

“The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.”

“In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.”

“Taking the strong believing women as role models for both men and women, clearly indicates that the Quran acknowledges the woman's ability to be a strong person who can overcome any innate weakens in her.”

Men Believe Persons Strong Ability Roles Models Men And Women Overcoming Acknowledge Role Models Innate Quran Strong Person

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available.”

“Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.”

Humans Given Human Beings Ability Animal Creation Creating Bird Substance Immortality Insects Everlasting

Author:Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

“In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.”

Mean Art Desire Ability Practice Possession Worthwhile

Book:O Dreams, O Destinations

Source: O Dreams, O Destinations

“There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.”

Needs Writing Has Beens Different Wanted Young Ability Talent Conscious Notion Peculiar Talents And Abilities

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?”

People Ifs Dream Would Be Lost Ability

Author:Martha Albrand

“The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.”

Ifs Problem Growth Ability Responsibility Forever Our Lives Depends Capacity Personal Responsibility

Book:The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

“Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.”

Faces Ability Darkness Ordinary Ultimate Ordinary People Anthem

Author:Joe Dempsie

“As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.”

Has Beens Ability Successful Speed Gaps Receiving Publishing Submission Publish Profile Leaks Pipeline

Author:Julian Assange

“In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.”

Heart Long Important Care Sex Ability My Heart Important Things Don't Care Ability To Love

Author:Tracy Morgan

“The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.”

Art Form Ability Opinion Comedy Workshops Incomparable Stand Up Comedy

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.”

Found Ability Comedy Timing

Author:Yvonne De Carlo

“Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.”

Ability Our Lives Warm Fuel Fuel Prices

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I had huge fun with Chris Evans, as Captain America, because super-soldier though he may be, he's still a man, up against a God who in his own mind is infinitely superior. Then, in the ring with The Hulk, we've got this silver tongued, lightening quick mind up against the embodiment of rage..Loki has this mercurial, transformative ability, not just physically but intellectually, so not all the fights are purely physical. Mind games? Maybe.”

Men Mind May Stills America Fighting Games Fun Ability Huge Soldier Rage Rings Superiors Silver Captains Embodiment Mind Games

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.”

Thinking Men Persons Fall Black Ability White Falling In Love Protestants Black Person

Author:Ally Sheedy

“Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.”

Men Needs Today Black Community Ability Careers Changed Charity Athlete Concentrating

Author:Jim Brown

“Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.”

Men Real Ability Depends Speech Conservation Assembly Knack

Author:Samuel Johnson

“No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.”

Done Ability Perseverance Worthy Sensitive Enterprise

Book:Prose works

Source: Prose works

“The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.”

Thinking Important Problem Ability Possibility Communication Skills Capacity Solve Critical Collaboration Academic Critical Thinking New Possibilities

Author:Tony Wagner

“Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.”

People Beautiful Ability Land Hollywood Beautiful People

Author:Michael Clarke Duncan

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