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“I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party.”

Thinking Important Ability Party Economy Streets Skills Locals Terrific Organizer

Author:David Korten

“The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.”

Social Ability Leader Mark Exceptional Vigor

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.”

Want Wanted Ability Franklin

Author:Lena Horne

“Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!”

Has Beens Ends Fall Simple Ability Leader Millions Clear Mass Stupidity Ignorant Proven Once Upon A Time Ability To See Simple Truths Ignorant Masses

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules of a well-run corporation is that surprise is to be minimized. Yet if this rule were applied to the creative process, nothing worth reading would get written, nothing worth seeing would get painted, nothing worth living with and using would ever get designed.”

“The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.”

War Order Ability Information Terrorist Factors Civilians Captured Atrocities Sponsors Premium

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“I think democracy fails under a variety of conditions and one of the conditions occurs when people don't have the ability to get the kind of information they need to make up their mind. Ideologically, I don't care much for FOX News. But the truth is that, as long as there are countervailing points of view available on the spectrum, it doesn't matter.”

“You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.”

Thinking Natural Chance Ability Balls Surprise Bats Natural Ability

Author:Mike Trout

“The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.”

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.”

People Firsts May War States Character Government Political Ability Situation Enemy Effects Resources Opposites Regard Aim Evaluate Gauges

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“Soros is the best loss taker I've ever seen. He doesn't care whether he wins or loses on a trade. If a trade doesn't work, he's confident enough about his ability to win on other trades. There are a lot of shoes on the shelf; wear only the ones that fit. If you're extremely confident, taking a loss doesn't bother you.”

Ifs Enough Care Winning Loses Loss Ability Fit Trade Shoes Bother Shelves Win Or Lose He Doesn't Care

Author:Stanley Druckenmiller

“The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.”

Ifs Mind Process Ability Successful Keys Personality Succeed Strategy Investment Evolve Characteristics Investors Dogmatic Ability To Change Investment Success

Author:Jack D. Schwager

“Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.”

People Knows Order Loses Ability Decision Emotion Cutting Emotional Discipline Exercise Weight Majority Investment Fats Despite Analogies Dieting Lose Weight Unsuccessful

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“I believe my most important skill is an ability to perceive patterns in the market. I think this aptitude for pattern recognition is probably related to my heavy involvement with music.”

Thinking Believe Important I Believe Ability Skills Patterns Heavy Recognition Perceive Related Involvement Aptitude

Author:Linda Bradford Raschke

“A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.”

Art Pain Ability Chaos Without Pain Controllers

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.”

People Feels Humans Ability Situation Conditions Capacity Aspect Angry Cruelty Human Condition Make Me Angry

Book:Bruce Nauman

Source: Bruce Nauman

“Wishes are premonitions of abilities.”

Wish Ability Premonition

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.”

Whole Ability Secret Responsibility Response Sentences

Author:Carl F. H. Henry

“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.”

Men Art War Problem Turns Ability Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Survival Solutions Harmony Injustice Solve Practicals Dependent Art Of Living Scientific Progress

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.”

World Today Ability Technology Information Civilization Connected Dues Code Realms Crucial Rapids Advancement Unprecedented Information Technology Computing Hyper

Author:Al Gore

“Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value”

World Values Ability Achievement Enormous Remarkable Digital Bitcoin Digital World

Author:Eric Schmidt

“The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.”

Ability Forget Focus Bad Things Greatest Gifts

Author:Joe Biden

“One's desire, not ability, determines success.”

Desire Ability Determine

Book:Motivation Lombardi Style

Source: Motivation Lombardi Style

“Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together.”

Wells Looks Two Matter Together Moving Night Loses Natural Ability Deals Talent Skills Combination Clock Look Up Two Things Losing Yourself Something You Love Natural Ability

Author:George Lucas

“Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.”

Lying Loses Ability

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. It requires no method, no tools, and no training. Just the ability to be real. And if you can't be real, then you have no right to inflict yourself upon innocent children.”

Ifs Children Real Ability Teaching Honest Information Students Intellectual Training Tools Method Innocent Being Real Innocent Children

Author:Paul Lockhart

“I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.”

Ability Talent Musical Conclusion Definite Musical Ability

Book:Suzuki Harp School - Volume 1: Harp Part

Source: Suzuki Harp School - Volume 1: Harp Part

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”

“We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.”

Whole Motivation Humanity Ability Honest Depends Pure Determination Optimism Warm Discouraged Hearted Warm Hearted

Author:Dalai Lama

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.”

“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”

Thinking Writing Ability Sarcastic

Author:A. E. Housman

“O eternal truth and true love and beloved eternity! You are my God; to you I sigh by day and by night. And when I first knew you, you raised me up so that I could see that there was something to see and that I still lacked the ability to see it. And you beat back the weakness of my sight, blazing upon me with your rays, and I trembled in love and in dread.”

Firsts Stills Night Ability Eternal Beats Weakness Eternity Sight Raised Beloved Rays Dread Sigh Blazing Ability To See

Author:Saint Augustine

“The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.”

Persons Ability Amount Accounts Starting Determined Manage Bank Accounts

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.”

Enough Opportunity Ability Economy Capacity Increase Innovation Strategy Linear New Opportunity Incremental Change

Author:Gary Hamel

“Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.”

Real Ability Vision Invisible Ability To See

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Discipline, as understood by a warrior, is creative, open, and produces freedom. It is the ability to face the unknown, transforming the feeling of knowing into reverent astonishment; of considering things that exceed the scope of our habits, and daring to face the only war that is worthwhile: The battle for awareness.”

War Feelings Faces Ability Creative Knowing Awareness Produce Habit Discipline Battle Understood Warrior Worthwhile Daring Considering Scope Exceed Transforming Astonishment

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.”

Humans Order Left Process Ability Brain Information Patterns Visuals Human Brain Symmetry Left And Right

Author:Tony Buzan

“As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.”

Ifs Knows Trying States Chance Ability Crime Weapons Capacity Nuclear Developing Iran Capability Nuclear Weapons Chances Are

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.”

People States Ability United United States Great Things

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

“[In 2004 on being at TBWA Chiat Day for 30 years.] Different people are different in terms of the way they're made. I knew since the day I arrived at Chiat Day that I was at home, and that I was at a place where I could prove my talent and my ability... I am also married for 35 years too, so it could just be how I am.”

People Way Years Made Different Home Term Ability Talent Prove Married Different Peoples

Author:Lee Clow

“Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.”

Way Hard Given Ability Hard Work Ordinary Capacity Extraordinary Accomplish Great Things Persistence Ordinary Things

Author:Lloyd D. Newell

“Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?”

Needs Art Ability Art Is Organization Drawing

Author:Edwin Catmull

“I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?”

Order Goal Growth Ability Growing Failing Achieve Achieving Your Goals

Author:James C. Collins

“I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.”

Thinking Years I Can Ideas Able Sound Ability Knowing Records Style Changed Stronger Improvement Conclusion Compare Logical Chords Edits Referring

Author:Gary Bartz

“You know, we just buy music now. We don't make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it's so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.”

People Thinking Knows Important Ability Rough Have Confidence

Author:Tom Waits

“Ability without honor has no value.”

Values Ability Honor

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.”

Heart Self Ability Attention Focus Healthy Approach Being Me

Author:Nick Baylis

“Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.”

Men Giving Children Self Ability Sufficient Manhood Self Sufficient

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.”

Needs Should Ability Oneself

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.”

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