Best Ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 27

“I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. These past thirty days, I have spent many of my moments lost in that void. And I know that many future moments will be consumed by the vast emptiness as well. But when I can, I want to choose life and meaning.”

Thinking Knows Want Giving Trying Wells Heart I Can Moments Past Choices Lost Ability Tragedy Breathe Thirty Emptiness Void Lungs Consumed Find Me Choose Life

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others”

World Giving Helping Certain Ability Views Teach Particular Citizens Achievement Jazz About Yourself Swings World View

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.”

People Reality Faces Ability Ordinary Curse Lacking Ordinary People Rationalize

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“I always had a deep affection for Malcolm and felt that he had a great ability to put his finger on the existence and the root of the problem. He was an eloquent spokesman for his point of view and no one can honestly doubt that Malcolm had a great concern for the problems we face as a race.”

Problem Faces Felt Ability Views Race Existence Doubt Concern Roots Fingers Affection Point Of View Honestly Eloquent Deep Affection

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When one's ideas are not challenged, one's ability to defend them weakens.”

Ideas Ability

Author:John Stuart Mill

“We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.”

People Wells Has Beens Government Able Together Faces Moving Culture Community Ability Secret Majors Adversity Extraordinary Moving Forward Tribes Upheaval Kept Secrets Cherokee

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“We want a sense that an important character, like a narrator, is reliable. We want to believe that a character is not playing ages or being coy or being manipulative, but is telling the truth to the best of his or her ability...We do not wish to be crudely manipulated...We want to be massaged by a masseur, not whapped by a carpet beater.”

Want Believe Important Character Age Wish Ability Telling The Truth Carpet Narrators Manipulative

Author:Anne Lamott

“For some reason I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.”

People Ifs Want Reason Asks Ability Embarrassed

Author:Naomie Harris

“As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.”

Knows Important Night Dies Ability Focus Share Tasks Entrepreneur Missions Critical Each Day Delay Day And Night Skip Prioritize Delegates Delegation

Author:Jessica Jackley

“You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.”

People Ifs Way Humans Might Human Beings Ability Cities Love You And Love Temples Good People Screws Being There Living In The City

Author:John Frusciante

“Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.”

Thinking Ability Consciousness Alive Awareness Curious Awake About Yourself Furious

Author:Maxine Greene

“It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.”

Ifs Problem Hands Ability Interesting Notes Stranded

Book:Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude

“On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.”

Want Feels Should Important Reason Use Hands Reality Given Enjoy Ability Focus Exercise Healthy Tension Activist Vocation

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.”

Ability Quality Marriage Exception Tolerate Infidelity Proven Occasional

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.”

Humans Long Play Bigs Lasts Spirit Ability Numbers Skills Triumph League Human Spirit

Author:Bob Uecker

“I have an amazing ability to forget.”

Ability Forget

Author:Gene Mauch

“Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?”

People Knows World Way Real Ability Knowing Virtue Self Help Stranger Self Discovery Cents Not Knowing Woe Ninety Frailty

Author:Sydney J. Harris

“I love you Lord, you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. And my God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold. I will call on the Lord who is worthy of praise. I praise the Lord, my God, my best friend, for giving me the ability, the desire, the love and the guidance that brought me here today. Without you, I would be nothing.”

Source: Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond

“Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his”

Humans Heart Different Left Sin Ability Rights Independence Clean Touched Resentment Human Heart

Book:Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart

Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart

“It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.”

Given Ability Color Skins

Author:Bob Gibson

“Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day.”

Kind Sometimes Helping Difficult Ability Gestures Underestimate Difficult Times Persevere Kind Words Help With Depression

Author:Jared Padalecki

“Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.”

Littles Ability Pay Example Debt Little Faith

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.”

Knows Wisdom Able Past Happiness Joy Enjoy Ability Mistake Knowledge History

Book:Doctor's Orders

Source: Doctor's Orders

“Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.”

Political Courses Politics Ability Heard Debate Dependent Compass Controversy

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.”

Men May Ability Issues Greater Rights Security Students Building Victory Mets Demand Excellence University Administration Files Dean Rifles

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.”

Trying Leadership Ability Decision Tough Capacity Tested Tough Decisions Trying Times

Author:Ehud Olmert

“I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.”

Ifs Knows Play Film Ability Careers England Independent Independent Film New England

Author:Randy Harrison

“Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God.”

Ability Sufficiency

Author:John Wycliffe

“Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.”

Mind Self Ability Emotion Honest Remarkable Deceiving

Author:William P. Young

“It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.”

“I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Humanity Fall Found Women Religious Loss Ability Involved Be Kind Fabric Domination Falling Apart Subordinates Embedded Patronizing

Author:William P. Young

“The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.”

Evil Ability Essentials Core Grandeur Ability To Choose

Author:William P. Young

“There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.”

People Way Care Lines Ability Money Pay Class Seeing One Thing Coaches Priorities Health Care Perks Amenities

Author:Arthur Caplan

“Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.”

Source: Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret

“Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.”

Ifs Desire Ability Claims Willingness Components

Author:Rhonda Britten

“Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.”

Running Ability Resilience Running Away

Author:Wes Fesler

“Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.”

Sometimes Feelings Death Time Change Ability Dying Terrible Aids Viruses Untouchables

Author:Amanda Palmer

“My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.”

Play Jobs Ability Ready Available

Author:Bernie Williams

“I'm a really smart player. If you tell me something, I get it quickly. If there is something wrong with my hitting, tell me what's wrong and I'll pick it up right away. That's the best thing I have going for me, my ability to listen to a coach and fix what I'm doing wrong.”

Ifs Ability Player Smart Picks Coaches Best Things Hitting Really Smart

Author:Albert Pujols

“A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.”

Mind May Matter Whole Body America Time Sound Change Challenges Ability Accepting Doubt Acceptance Citizens Loyalty Cease Doctrine Instant Officials Republic Loyal Questioning

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.”

Men Persons Order Born Chance Ability Depends Circumstances Noble Merit Distinction Disposition Public Service Parades Ancestry Notorious Amiable Insolence Pedigree

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.”

Running Ability Simplicity Height Minimum Halfway Cultivation Ornamentation

Author:Bruce Lee

“Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures”

Doe Ability Pleasure Wine Drinking Drinking Wine

Author:Kent Bach

“We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with the non-verbal ability of remembering what they are like, or of appreciating them without being able to say why”

Able Remember Ability Pleasure Appreciate Wine Features Distinctive

Author:Kent Bach

“A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.”

Ifs Men May Politics Speak Ability Politician Circumstances Notion Ill Vague Tact

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.”

Helping Happens Past Remember Next Language Ability Plans Tense Remembering The Past

Author:Margaret Atwood

“In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.”

Should Matter Ability Dresses

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.”

Men Character Individual Loses Ability Destructive Prosecution

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.”

Men Shows Able Action Spirit Ability Gentle Resolute

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.”

Law Ability Conditions Command

Book:Theological texts

Source: Theological texts

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