Best ability & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.”

Knows Trying May I Can Action Actors Can Do Ability Mistake Fantasy Limitation Genre Being The Best Can Not Attempting De Niro Highlander

Author:Christopher Lambert

“Self-confidence should be applied to wholesome actions, Overcoming of delusions and my ability to overcome them. Thinking, 'I alone shall do it' Is the self-confidence of action.”

Thinking Should Self Action Ability Self Esteem Overcoming Self Confidence Esteem Delusion

Author:Shantideva

“As an exercise in appreciation, try for one hour to feel grateful for every single thing you find yourself doing. When you read, be grateful you can see and read. When you walk, be grateful for the use of your feet. When you talk, be grateful for the ability to communicate with others. For a full hour do not take even the smallest action for granted. Be aware of every detail of what you can do. Anyone who does this daily for even a short time will have a much greater appreciation for everything he does.”

“Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.”

People Littles Action Ability Decision Possibility Endless Maturity Accomplished Exploring Doing Nothing Immature Endless Possibilities Immature People

Author:Ann Landers

“Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, 'I'm not good enough.' We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious... we have the ability to take action to override it.”

Self Enough Action Belief Ability Doubt Childhood Type Response Core Our Family Good Enough Rooted Subconscious Symptoms Not Good Enough Self-doubt Limiting Beliefs Core Beliefs

Author:Lauren Mackler

“We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.”

World Done Action Ability Common Judging Succeed Spokes Words And Actions

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.”

Men Able Action Individual Ability Environment Information Depends Future Behavior Fairs Flow Bases Rational Data Outcomes Feds Sanity Hinges

Book:future shock

Source: future shock

“Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.”

Source: The real George Washington

“You are different from the really great man in only one thing: The great man, at one time, also was a very little man, but he developed one important ability: he learned to see where he was small in his thinking, and actions. Under the pressure of some task which was dear to him he learned better and better to sense the threat that comes from his smallness and pettiness. The great man, then, knows when and in what he is a little man.”

Thinking Knows Men Littles Important Different Action Ability One Thing Tasks Pressure Threat Dear Great Men One Time Really Great Little Man Smallness Pettiness

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“There is a divide in our culture between people who want to see evidence of a politiсian's knowledge and worldliness, and people for whom "git 'er done" actions, as you put it, provide tangible proof of the ability to lead. I don't know how developed that idea is.”

People Knows Want Ideas Done Action Culture Ability Know How Evidence Proof Divides Tangible Worldliness

Author:Libby Copeland

“This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.”

“Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us”

Action Moving Force Ability Leader Shapes Invisible Consistently

Author:Tony Robbins

“Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.”

Ideas Action Artist Ability Instinct Appreciation Artistic Conception Originality Lofty Uncommon Ideas And Action

Author:James Jackson Jarves

“Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.”

Ifs Believe Wisdom Government Action Jobs Desire Fighting Opportunity Politics Ability Responsibility Economy Pieces Climate Managers Liberalism Owners Good Job

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The sweet spot: that productive, uncomfortable terrain located just beyond our current abilities, where our reach exceeds our grasp. Deep practice is not simply about struggling; it's about seeking a particular struggle, which involves a cycle of distinct actions.”

Action Ability Practice Struggle Particular Sweet Currents Seeking Spots Uncomfortable Productive Cycles Exceed Terrain

Book:The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown

Source: The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown

“Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.”

Action Ability Muscles Atrophy

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.”

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.”

“Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?”

World Today Action Pain Faces Courses Ability Leader Wonder Danger Overcoming Difficulty Chosen Defined Uncertainty Cowardice Better Off World Leader Today's World

Author:Joshua Fernandez

“Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.”

Ifs Giving Two Action Force Loses Ability Enemy Conditions Fronts Demand Draws South Defeat Commit Contribution Being The Best Zone Division Offensive Units Tanks

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“While it does, and should, feel good to be appreciated by another person, if you are dependent upon their appreciation to feel good, you will not be able to consistently feel good, because no other person has the ability, or a responsibility, to hold you as their singular, positive object of attention. Your Inner Being, however, the Source within you, always holds you, with no exceptions, as a constant object of appreciation. So if you will tune your thoughts and actions to that consistent Vibration of Well-Being flowing forth from your Inner Being-you will thrive under any and all conditions.”

Source: The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships

“We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.”

World Feelings Action Ability Manifest Our Thoughts

Author:Jason Mraz

“Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.”

People Children Age Action Fun Ability Middle Conditions Example Our Children Intelligence Setting Factors Settings Your Children Delay Middle Ages Setting An Example

Author:William Faulkner

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“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

“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

“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

“Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.”

Needs Giving Dream Action Desire Goal Ability Powerful Focus Achieve Shapes Setting Settings Our Dreams Setting Goals

Author:Jim Rohn

“For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.”

Men Long Action Ability Equal Endure Envy Incredulity

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Personally, I think SmackDown! has to be a little spicier than it is, a little more electrifying than it is. It's got great athletes and they've got great action, they've done some tremendous stuff, but I want it to knock you off the couch when it opens up. And I think we as a group have the ability to do that.”

Thinking Want Littles Done Action Stuff Ability Groups Athlete Couches Great Athlete

Author:Dusty Rhodes

“I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.”

People Thinking Knows Way Humans Different Real Character Action Film Ability Clear Expression Flawed Animated Action Movie Uncomplicated Animated Films

Author:Steve Martin

“Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the killer and the killed do not know each other, and in which,indeed, the very fact of mass death has the effect of making mass killing less reprehensible than the death of a single individual. In short, we have evolved in every respect except our ability to protect ourselves against human intelligence. Our knowledge is vast but does not embrace the workings of peace.”

Knows Way Humans Doe Facts Today Action Humanity Individual Given Peace Ability Effects Protect Safe Mass Embrace Killing Killers Human Intelligence Cannibalism

Author:Norman Cousins

“I mean you can go wherever you want with it really. No matter what story you're telling you're always representing some reality. You are always representing human beings, their fears, their shortcomings, their braveries, their doubts, their loves, their abilities, their brilliance and those things inevitably lead to bigger political systems, foreign policy and crime and religion. It's an action film. We are not taking a stance about big government.”

“How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.”

World Action Ability Mankind Sufficient Admiration

Book:The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.”

Action Passion Ability Mark Vigorous Midwife

Author:Eric Hoffer

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