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“What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.”

Ifs Self Whole Ability Car Industry Including Enterprise Executives Investors Initiative Automobile Starters Private Enterprise Standstill Self Starter

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.”

Men Able Language Imagination Ability Animal Communication Capacity Organization Size Abstract Complexity Lives Of Others

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.”

“The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which he shares with many other scientists, but in which he has perhaps a certain comparative advantage.”

Important Certain Ability Share Skills Advantage Scientist Economist Equilibrium Comparative Advantage

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.”

Thinking Firsts Ability Civilization Conversation Polite Prerequisites Polite Conversation

Author:W. H. Auden

“The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.”

“[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.”

May Seems Asks Ability Sky Advice Argument Praise Affair Following Manage Allowing Submit Deference

Author:William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

“All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.”

Thinking Men Littles Causes Differences Ability Weakness Importance Infinite Stupidity Distinction One Man Organs Mistaken Ugliness

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .”

Would Be Ability Attitude Fit Skills Patterns Masculine Pretense Pretension Skills And Abilities

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q. (Performance Quotient) will not give away such rent to the Ford Foundation or the local bank trust department. They have too high an I.Q. for that.”

Giving Ability Special Return Performances Foundation Extraordinary Investing Locals Department Economist Flair

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The number of managers with great track records in a given market depends far more on the number of people who started in the investment business (in place of going to dental school), rather than on their ability to produce profits.”

People School Given Ability Numbers Records Produce Depends Investment Investing Track Profit Managers Track Record Dental

Book:Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Source: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.”

Years Long Shows Waiting Leadership Chance Ability Leader Careers Gone Successful Wings Retiring Unlikely Somewhere Else Successors Caliber Long Careers Successful Leaders

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.”

Waiting Ability Company Investing Scales Initials Profitable Best Times Prototype

Author:Dave McClure

“I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.”

Knows Today Ability Lord Talent Blessing Praise Praise The Lord

Book:Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball

Source: Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball

“Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.”

Want Life Doe Games Growth Ability Accepting Fit Easier Personal Growth Investing What You Want Uncomfortable Thrilling Get Fit

Author:Ray Dalio

“Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.”

Men Way Life Helping Reality Found Growth Ability Lessons Offers Personal Growth Investing Observing

Author:Ray Dalio

“If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man.”

Source: Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

“the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.”

Men Has Beens Stills Humanity Women Ability Half Blood Months Drama Disease Female Injury Primitive Gore Bleeding Phoenix Each Month

Author:Estelle Ramey

“In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.”

World Wells Found Ability Powerful Military Most Powerful Concealed Often Is Rustic

Author:Pliny the Elder

“No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.”

Men Needs Opportunity Ability Shining

Author:Pliny the Elder

“I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Matter Ability Taken Willing Listening Experts Willingness Worthwhile Wrong Things

Author:Raghuram Rajan

“With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.”

Believe Moving Nations Ability Quality Percent Moving On Tied Economist Highways Infrastructure Moved On

Author:Dennis Hastert

“A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.”

“The test of a good idea is its ability to last through a hangover”

Ideas Lasts Ability Tests Good Ideas Hangover

Book:I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir

Source: I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir

“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.”

Source: On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand

“Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.”

Source: Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being

“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.”

“Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”

Thinking Giving Whole Seems Lying Universe Ability Pleasure Grief Secret Worry Youth Sorrow Treasure Suits Charm Suits You

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.”

Source: The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object

“Our abilities and giftedness does not end of this earth; we will continue to serve the Lord in agreement with our abilities on this earth.”

Doe Ends Earth Ability Lord Agreement Giftedness

Book:Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About

Source: Heaven Revealed: What Is It Like? What Will We Do?... And 11 Other Things You've Wondered About

“Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.”

Way Giving Values Ability Steps Cases Greater Communication Giving Up Authority Concepts Constant Communicate Active Copyright Monitoring Ability To Communicate

Author:Rick Falkvinge

“Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.”

Men Ability Sacred Privilege Makers

Book:Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis

Source: Hamishah Humshe Torah Im Ha-Hafterot: Genesis

“I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens Actors Lost Ability Performances Chosen Thrust Public Life Spotlight

Author:Anne Hathaway

“You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.”

Feels Body Today Ability Healing Figures Amount Tomorrow Ten Evidence Sick Illness Your Body Feel Good Wellness Sickness Ability To Change Today And Tomorrow Change Your Thoughts

Author:Esther Hicks

“You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.”

Ability Patterns Life Experience

Author:Esther Hicks

“A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.”

Ifs Men Wells Soul Sound Ability Serious Sober Degenerates

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.”

World Wisdom Faces Lying Spirituality Ability Healing Attitude Power Crosses Miracle Endure Heal Daily Life Rise Above

Author:Daya Mata

“I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and energy comparing my talents with those of others.”

Time Individual Energy Ability Talent Unique Happy Compare Time And Energy Precious Time Talents And Abilities Unique Individuals Unique Talents

Book:Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design

Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design

“Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.”

Knows Children Hard Home Jobs Mother Values Father Parent Ability Know How Clear Share Identity Duty Envy Boundaries Intimacy Closeness Switching Switching Off

Author:Terri E Apter

“each of us has been given the ability to reach God with our prayers. ... Whatever form it takes, each prayer is an invitation for God to bring his power into another life. God wants to help us, but he waits for us to seek his help.”

Want Has Beens God Helping Form Given Waiting Prayer Ability Invitations Our Prayers Another Life

Book:The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love

Source: The Awakening Heart: My Continuing Journey to Love

“I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.”

Should Ideas Felt Enjoy Loses Ability Technology Magic My Friends Appreciate Cameras Sunset Terrified

Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman

“At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.”

Heart Speak Ability Compassion Forgiveness Harsh Triggers Love And Compassion Cooling Harsh Words Ability To Speak Speak From The Heart

Author:Ana Monnar

“Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.”

May Helping Feelings Ability Creativity Creative Expression Access Frustration Desperation Eloquence Dissatisfaction Creative Expression

Book:Trust the Process

Source: Trust the Process

“I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.”

People Want Able Ability Plans Communication Keys Internet Strikes Terrorist Free Speech

Author:William J. Clinton

“In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.”

Said Two Important Lasts Ability Week Internet Protect Thirds Police Phones Partners Preserves Privacy Free Speech Chips Polls Phone Calls Cnn

Author:Philip Elmer-DeWitt

“There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this government to conduct signals intelligence and the ability of this government to carry out its mission of protecting national security information from hostile exploitation.”

Real Matter Government Ability Security Information Danger Internet Missions Critical Discussion Damage Free Speech Exploitation National Security Signals Hostile

Author:Bobby Ray Inman

“In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.”

Way Young Reading Ability Land Divides Conspiracy Things Change

Author:Patricia T. O'Conner

“To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.”

Mean Choices Freedom Ability Capacity Who I Am Honour Inherent

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“If mothers are told to do this or that or the other,... they lose touch with their own ability to act.... Only too easily they feel incompetent. If they must look up everything in a book, they are always too late even when they do the right things, because the right things have to be done immediately. It is only possible to act at exactly the right point when the action is intuitive or by instinct, as we say. The mind can be brought to bear on the problem afterwards.”

Ifs Feels Mind Looks Book Done Problem Action Mother Loses Ability Bears Late Instinct Right Thing Look Up Too Late Intuitive Incompetent

Author:Donald Woods Winnicott

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