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“You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.”

Feels Art Moments Ability Audience Share Rocks Musician Critics Envy Frustrated

Author:Todd Haynes

“Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.”

“Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it.”

“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.”

Men Interest Ability

Author:Cornelius Vanderbilt

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.”

“Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.”

Giving Ability Careers Too Much Information Lifetime Coaches Intuitive Too Much Information

Author:Tiffeny Milbrett

“The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.”

Helping School Ability Students College Modest Entering

Author:Derek Bok

“Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.”

People Knows World Wells Hard Play Ability Know How Talent Hard Work Elements Labor Leisure Introducing Constructive Playfulness

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.”

World Seems Ability Granted Perceive Effortless

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.”

Hands Games Ability Stage Skills Balls Lips Aggressive Bowlers

Author:Rahul Dravid

“At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.”

Ends Self Challenges Ability Achieve Greatness Promise Overcoming Difficulty Tragedy Tendencies Self Reliance Reliance Rise Above Indication Sabbath Unbelief Adequacy

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.”

Ability Lord Training Gains Program Pressure Rejoice Under Pressure Training Programs

Book:Insights on Romans

Source: Insights on Romans

“You have to be strong; you have to trust yourself that you can bring down the dictatorship regime and build a new country. You have to be part of building your country. We know that anything that you dream can happen. You have to know that you have the ability to achieve your dream.”

Knows Country Dream Happens Strong Ability Achieve Building Your Dreams Regimes Dictatorship Trust Yourself Achieving Your Dreams

Author:Tawakkol Karman

“An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.”

Giving Wells Children School Ability Administrators Well Rounded School Days

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.”

World Trying I Can Hard Games Ability Share Building Basketball Achievement Around The World Nba Hospitals Globes Congo Philanthropic

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.”

Past Individual Nations Ability Study Victory Foundation Lays Errors Empowering

Author:Aberjhani

“What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.”

Ends Use Language Ability Economy Imagery Visual Imagery

Author:Mos Def

“What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.”

People Community Ability Honesty Skills Empathy Capacity Sense Of Humor Timing Appreciated

Author:M. Scott Peck

“I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.”

Feels Certain Lost Ability Decision Emotion Study Circumstances Majors Patient Emote

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do.”

Giving Energy Ability Grace Calling Supplies

Author:Joyce Meyer

“An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.”

People Persons Important Ability Creative Progress Skills Exciting Routes Indispensable Creative People Creative Person Right Questions

Author:Lisa Randall

“Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.”

People Needs Done Goal Ability Vision Influence Accomplish Missions Influencing People

Author:Robert Johnson

“I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.”

Matter Used Ability Editors Editing My Thoughts Edited Hacked

Author:Steig Larsson

“The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.”

World Way Art Helping Ability Environment Built Foundation Celebrate Our World Aesthetic New Ways Art Education Built Environment

Author:James T. Hubbell

“The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.”

Men Stills Ability Generations Complicated Enjoyed Fatherhood Transparency

Author:Mona Simpson

“The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.”

Wells Winning Ability Gold Manage Assets Olympics Aspire Jordan

Author:Louis Bacon

“A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.”

Doe Art Self Use Actors Ability Roles Training Performances Mastery Lighters

Book:Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends

Source: Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends

“Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.”

Men Art Two Three Ability Talent He Man Materials Genius Ten Perception Ordinary Capacity Plus Multiple Register Ordinary Man

Author:Ezra Pound

“Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.”

Thinking Reason Language Ability Misunderstanding Crux

Author:Johann Georg Hamann

“Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.”

Desire Ability Environment Fire Wheels Inherent Our Environment Demonstrating

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.”

Giving Dies Opportunity Ability Duty Fundamentals

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.”

Thinking Given Ability Fields Research Boxes Conventional Handicaps Conventional Wisdom Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.”

Ability Successful Unique Los Angeles Qualifications Dodgers Great Confidence

Author:Joe Torre

“My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.”

People Home Young Ability Land Elements Fulfilling Stewardship Public Lands

Author:Sally Jewell

“We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.”

Ifs Government Running Lines Ability Company Ought Ceo Items Private Sector Veto

Author:John Raese

“Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.”

Thinking Wells Mean Use Ability Land Source Waste Winter Oil Forests Touching Crops Usage Sewage Biofuels

Author:Vinod Khosla

“Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.”

“I want people to appreciate talent and ability.”

People Want Ability Talent Appreciate Talents And Abilities

Author:Michael Jackson

“We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.”

Ifs Humans Self Ability Bird Fishes Valuable Proclamation Underwater Human Intelligence

Author:Gary L. Francione

“One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.”

Ability Honest Keys Elements Being Honest Honest With Yourself Be Honest With Yourself

Author:Bill Toomey

“I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.”

“People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.”

People Should Two Wish Ability Deals Succeed Skills Should Have Sells

Author:Shiv Khera

“I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.”

World Inspirational Believe Ability Powerful Sincerely

Author:Dhirubhai Ambani

“It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.”

Ifs Names Ability Strange

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.”

Ends Ability Struggle Focus Areas Excellence Mediocrity Uniqueness Diminish Best Gift

Book:48 Days to the Work You Love

Source: 48 Days to the Work You Love

“When you're in a losing streak, your ability to properly assimilate and analyze information starts to become distorted because of the impairment of the confidence factor, which is a by-product of a losing streak. You have to work very hard to restore that confidence, and cutting back trading size helps achieve that goal.”

Hard Helping Goal Ability Cutting Achieve Information Products Losing Size Factors Trading Streaks

Author:Bill Lipschutz

“I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.”

Knows World Humans Belief Ability Particular Materials Evidence Access Take Me Cant Material World

Author:Bernard Beckett

“For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed by His Spirit, is a high provocation of him; nor shall I expect the discovery of truth from any one who thus proudly engages in a work so much beyond his ability.”

Men Spirit Ability Taught Discovery Scripture Interpretation Portions Provocation Invocation

Book:Pneumatologia: Or, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations, and Effects; His Whole Work in the Old and New Creation is Explained; and the Doctrine Concerning it Vindicated

Source: Pneumatologia: Or, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit, Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations, and Effects; His Whole Work in the Old and New Creation is Explained; and the Doctrine Concerning it Vindicated

“I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.”

Thinking Writing Mind Kind Able Ability Notion Solve Enormous Mysterious Stakes Puzzles Riddle Mysterious Benedict Society

Author:Trenton Lee Stewart