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“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.”

Writing Children Persons Has Beens Character Stories Body Ability Judgment Mark Hearing Smell Actresses Louisiana

Author:Rebecca Wells

“When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.”

Thinking Kind Art Girl Ability Martial Arts Really Cool Karate

Author:Rebel Wilson

“All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.”

People Reason School Hate Ability My Family Very Good Math Mathematical Exam Dork Dorky

Author:Rebel Wilson

“Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.”

Ifs Use Ability Attention Stones Hood Stepping Stones Flashy

Author:Richard Widmark

“What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.”

Believe Ability Issues Air Theatre Mediums Peculiar

Author:Samuel West

“Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.”

Use Ability Products Invention

Book:To be equal

Source: To be equal

“I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.”

Thinking Feels May Important Self Ability Keys Mouths Tools Defense Fats Allowing Mechanism Sane Self Defense Starks Being Funny Uncontrollable Defense Mechanisms

Author:Jen Lancaster

“I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.”

Thinking World Different Culture Ability Starting Privilege Different Cultures

Author:Chris Cornell

“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.”

Whole Stories Reading Asks Imagination Ability Creative Written Reader Pages Whole Life Life Experience Written Word Creative Imagination

Author:Katherine Paterson

“We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs... Doubles are almost better. I mean, home runs are great, but when you've got guys who smack those doubles, you're in good shape, you've got a lot of guys in scoring position.”

Mean Said Home Running Guy Ability Position Shapes Trading Home Run Smack

Author:Ned Yost

“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”

Humans Use Hands Language Ability Hot Instinct Surface

Author:Steven Pinker

“The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.”

Ability Organization Size Related

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor”

Important Form Imagination Ability Magic Factors Faculty Magician Esoteric Imaging

Author:Kenneth Grant

“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.”

Humans Soul Matter Hands Desire Wish Ability Talent Creation Satisfaction Backgrounds Fulfillment Organized Yearning Inherent Human Soul Mold

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?”

Christian Spirit Given Nations Christ Born Differences Church Sin Ability Powerful Our Lives Integrity Holy Claims Blame Significant Holy Spirit Sanity Born Again Hardened Powerful Words

Author:Francis Chan

“I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.”

Thinking Littles Two Ability Perfect Pieces Minutes Arms Speed Release Quarterback Montana Poise

Author:Peyton Manning

“When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.”

Inspirational Persons Two Winning Sports Ability Practice Player Hard Work Victory Politician Equal Losing Competition Assuming Competitors Hard Work Pays Off Practice Makes Perfect

Author:Bill Bradley

“The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.”

Moving Fall Ability Behinds Focus Keys Separation Moving Ahead

Author:Orrin Woodward

“What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”

May Doe Shows Belief Ability Argument Climate Rational Abandoned

Author:Austin Farrer

“Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.”

Want Use Life Is Opportunity Ability Huge Privilege Trusted

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder: to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still and quiet till all the elements of the earth and all the secrets of the oceans stir the aspects of life waiting within us.”

Stills Moments Earth Waiting Ability Secret Wonder Depends Quiet Elements Ocean Aspect Aspects Of Life

Book:The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)

“I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.”

Believe Art Use Artist Energy I Believe Ability Example I Believe In Lives Of Others

Book:Art & soul: notes on creating

Source: Art & soul: notes on creating

“Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.”

Ability Exercise Truth Is Stronger Muscles

Author:Dan Pallotta

“Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves”

Knows Should Ability Serious Victory Ultimate Defeat Metaphor Accomplish Significant Opponents Combat Jiu Jitsu

Author:Rorion Gracie

“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”

Thinking Men Simple Ability Achieve Paper Decent Pens Yarn

Author:Graham Moore

“By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.”

Children Christian Spiritual Desire Ability Design Fabric Dna Woven Reproduction

Book:Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.

Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.

“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”

Years Ends Suffering Language Loses Ability Teach Students Capacity Thirds Medicine Patient Medical

Author:Abraham Verghese

“SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.”

Together Energy Speak Ability Trouble Band Musician Originals Singers Load Impressed Songwriters Arrangements Singer Songwriters Highlights Dexterity

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

“My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.”

Ifs Believe Ability Taught Dad Sells My Dad Salesman

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.”

Ability Huge Comedian Get Away Blanche

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.”

People Form Ability Logic Stupidity Mystic

Author:David Gemmell

“Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.”

Self Belief Ability Decision Self Confidence

Book:Handbook for Preclears

Source: Handbook for Preclears

“Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.”

Thinking Language Ability Concepts Manipulate

Author:Leslie Lamport

“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.”

Certain Ability Effort Team Degrees Benefits Teammate

Author:Jason Babin

“Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated "heavily indebted poor country," with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.”

World Looks Littles Country House Ability Poor Economic Sells International Fund Farms Cash Affordable Monetary Indebted Poor Countries Nicaragua World Bank

Author:Tony D'Souza

“I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.”

Knows Wells Self School Bits Ability Lows Average Self Confidence

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.”

Littles Ability Skills Fantastic Associates

Author:Edward Klein

“Do everything to the best of your ability.”

Ability

Author:Meredith Vieira

“I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.”

People Bigs Lines Ability Skills Believer Unusual Untapped Potential

Author:Blake Roney

“The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.”

Knows Speak Ability Related Exactly Is Ability To Speak

Book:Imagination in Place

Source: Imagination in Place

“Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.”

Believe Energy Ability Honestly

Author:Michael Gungor

“Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.”

Giving Enjoy Ability Eating Satisfied Diets Nutrients Overeating

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.”

Thinking Feels Long Art Soul Moments Able Goal Ability Secret Oneness Readiness Realisation Inhale Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.”

Ifs Thinking School Ability Player Football College High School Nfl Football Player College Football Nfl Players Good College Good High School

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.”

Looks Children Long Play Kids Young Actors Ability Child Actors

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.”

“What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.”

Men Ability Weak Populism

Author:Mark Gevisser

“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”

Ifs Thinking Long States Government Able Growth Term Ability United United States Economy Obligation Long Term Global Economy

Author:Charles Bass

“Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.”

Ifs Body Running Moving Ability Space Existence Path Air Feet Movement Solitude Survival Proof Obedience Temporary Calmness Comes And Goes Euphoria

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

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