Best Ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

“The greenhouse crisis is the bill coming due for the Industrial Revolution. It's not an accident. It's the logical outcome of our world view - the idea that we can control the forces of nature, that we can have short-term expedient gains without paying for them, that there are no limits to exploitation of the environment, that we can produce and consume faster than nature's ability to replenish.”

“With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.”

Has Beens Moments Certain Ability Fate Karma Chains Free Will Sequence

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.”

Thinking Want Giving Trying Moments Stuff Ability Scene Pages Spontaneity

Author:Ben Stiller

“I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.”

Way Ideas Ability Pay Taxes

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.”

Way Humans Sometimes Lost Goal Ability Plans Intention Awe Good Intentions

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm.”

Pain Found Ability Practice Study Meditation Huge Arms Yoga Direct Impact Scripture Conclusion Nervous Ties Engaged Helpful Engaging Sympathetic Nervous System Gita Yoga Sutra

Author:Mark T Bertolini

“A lot of people think, particularly the people who have benefited, that they're entitled to the fruits of their abilities, their labor.”

People Thinking Ability Labor Fruit Entitled

Author:Paul Solman

“The treatments themselves do not 'cure' the condition, they simply restore the body's self-healing ability.”

Self Body Ability Healing Conditions Medicine Cures Wellness Treatment Self Healing Alternative Medicine

Author:Leon Chaitow

“Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.”

May Littles Running Ability Flower Raises Seeds Fables

Book:Fifty Poems

Source: Fifty Poems

“A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.”

Ifs Wells Ability Mountain Height Dwarfs Dwarves Colossus

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show”

Shows Ability Doubt Mere Possession No Doubt Carrie Great Power

Author:James A. Garfield

“Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.”

People Men Winning Ability Luck Esteem True Man

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.”

Truth Asks Ability Resources Learning The Truth

Author:Carl Jung

“The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.”

Character Wisdom Ability Secret Silence Wise Capacity

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.”

People Ifs Needs Turns Ability Pay Consideration Temples

Author:Allan Sherman

“One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.”

Natural Ability One Thing Capacity Assistance Premises Efficacy

Book:Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...

Source: Quintilian's institutes of eloquence ...

“You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.”

World Kind Hands Turns Ability Devil

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“Our body's natural detoxification system is designed to support our health by eliminating waste products from our metabolism and from environmental toxins. Like any other hardworking system, it needs periodic rest and support to continue functioning optimally. This program will teach you how to rest and restore your body's natural detoxification abilities.”

Needs Body Natural Ability Teach Support Products Waste Program Environmental Your Body Eliminating Hardworking Metabolism Toxins

Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.

“Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.”

Way Firsts Children Language Given Ability Effort Too Much Praise Drawing Crude

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.”

Men Born Ability Instinct

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.”

Ability Pride Self Confidence Sanity Hallmark

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.”

Individual Nations Ability Powerful Behinds Fronts Scene Historical Invisible Ambitious Spectacular Scenery Great Nations Behind The Scenes Controlling Government

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.”

Desire Realizing Ability Praise Excellence Readiness

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.”

Important Hands House Ability Brain Importance Important Things

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.”

People Men Ability Inferiors Distinguished

Book:The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

Source: The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals

“To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.”

Feels Trying Real Ability Situation Hunger Academic Urgency Miscellaneous

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.”

Two Ability Shoulders Giants Dwarfs Dwarves

Author:George Herbert

“It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.”

Thinking World Book Ability

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.”

Ability Shoulders Giants Dwarfs Dwarves

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.”

Wells Persons Ability Limits Committed Selected Axioms

Author:Tom Peters

“The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.”

Ability Chips Carpenter Carpentry

Book:A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets

Source: A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets

“Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.”

Men Way Giving Ability Ought

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.”

People Lying Ability Mistake Impression Fisherman Blushing

Book:Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

Source: Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1

“Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.”

Two Imagination Ability Health Healthy Hallmark Healthy Life Ability To Love

Author:Sigmund Freud

“As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.”

People Years Mind Two Matter Goal Ability Achieve Commitment Foundation Accomplish Meaningful Accomplishment Contribution Peace Of Mind What Matters Most Meaningful

Author:Stephen Covey

“You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.”

People Needs Jobs Ability Decision Tough Boss Tough Decisions

Author:Charles Kennedy

“Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?”

Ability Talent Get Away

Book:The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Source: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

“I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.”

Believe Moments Happiness Desire I Believe Ability Destiny Demand Cease Permanent

Author:Madame de Stael

“Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.”

Art Film Names Ability Powerful Vision Greatness Art Is Studios Appropriate Digital Works Of Art Kurosawa

Author:George Lucas

“You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.”

Use Ability Quality Degrees Achievement Performances Increase Quantity Efficiency

Author:Brian Tracy

“Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.”

Ability Player Tough Investing Bridges Ability To See Notches Top Notch

Author:Warren Buffett

“Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.”

Persons Important Ability Responsibility

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts. And equally, of course, whenever we rebel against the sterile rigidity of formal thought and exposition and let our ideas run wild, we likewise lose. As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of lose and strict thinking, and this combination is the most precious tool of science.”

Thinking Way Ideas Running Courses Loses Ability Pride Findings Tools Combination Rebel Formal Strict New Thought Rigidity

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.”

Giving Doe States Ability Limits Absolutes Finals Certainty Assurance Prevailing

Book:Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises

Source: Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises

“The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.”

Thinking Ability Class

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.”

Men Giving Whole Care Ability Situation Duty Months Six Raises Fortune Bread Luxury Sensual Generosity Expenses Dishes Toil Vicious Six Months Gratification Whole Family Peas

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.”

Knows Faith Sound Ability Break Strange Blind Rounds Teenager Necks Motorcycle

Book:Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'”

“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.”

Knows Years Humans Ends School Winning Ability Education Study Figures Students Prize Copies

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

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