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“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

“Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes you smarter. Or to put it in a slightly different way, experiences where you're forced to slow down, make errors, and correct them-as you would if you were walking up an ice-covered hill, slipping and stumbling as you go-end up making you swift and graceful without your realizing it.”

“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

“Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.”

May Certain Ability Levels Creativity Example Intelligent Surprise Intellect

Author:John Cleese

“There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.”

War Certain Ability Military Importance Difficulty Superiors Commanders Firmness

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.”

People Ifs Knows World Giving Feels Certain Ability Doubt Limits Behavior Loyalty Devotion Obligation Justify Assured

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“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

“There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".”

People May Doe Said Play Certain Games Ability Roles Talent Lucky Skills Luck Surface Physics Cards Habitual Parameters Hidden Talents

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Looks Character Happens Certain Ability Rooms Conflict Gun Fairs Machines Smell Inevitable Minors Creeps Entropy Machine Guns My Fair Lady

Author:Adam Rapp

“The team is never about the single player. It's not about the injury that keeps a star out of a certain game, and it's not about the coach. It's about the strength, and the abilities of the sum.”

Certain Games Stars Ability Player Team Coaches Injury Tigers Lsu

Author:Les Miles

“First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Certain My Own Ability Secret Goes On Essentials Gains Calm Requirements Peace Within Stay Calm

Book:You learn by living

Source: You learn by living

“Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.”

Source: And so it goes

“Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks, either by positively going for certain kinds of foods or rejecting other kinds of foods, they realize that this is a responsibility and an opportunity to shape the world a little bit by their own choices.”

People World Kind Littles Young Certain Choices Opportunity Bits Realizing Ability Responsibility Issues Shapes Little Bit Vote Introducing Positively Forks Rejecting

Author:Michael Pollan

“We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.”

“I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions.”

Feels Certain Lost Ability Decision Emotion Study Circumstances Majors Patient Emote

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.”

Way Soul Sometimes Hard Feelings Wisdom Seems Certain Time Strong Change Ability Known Knowledge Strength Capable Extremes Cruelty Length Strong Feeling

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done.”

Knows Mind Stills Reason Done Shows Certain Order Ability Consciousness Satisfied Curse

Book:Essays and Reviews

Source: Essays and Reviews

“The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to supervise and control their children, even when they are filled with anxiety as to their children's ability to cope with a full-fledged sexual relationship. "How can we buck the tide?" parents say helplessly, often without making quite certain that the ocean they see is a real one and not a mirage.”

Children Real Certain Belief Parent Ability Effort Anxiety Ocean Filled Sexuality Teenager Tides Hearted Bucks Uncontrollable Mirages Real Ones

Author:Marie Winn

“A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves prematurely at times, and excessively at others, but a good descriptive taxonomy, as Darwin found in developing his theory, and as Newton found in the work of Kepler, is the mother of laws and theories.”

Law Mother Certain Found Ability Students Theory Type Intellectual Strikes Developing Compulsion Impatient Newton Pedantry Kepler Taxonomy

Author:Raymond Cattell

“Certain music, jazz in particular, has the ability to make you a better citizen of the world. It helps you expand your world view and gives you more confidence in your cultural achievements. Improvisational jazz teaches you about yourself while the swing in jazz teaches you how to work with others”

World Giving Helping Certain Ability Views Teach Particular Citizens Achievement Jazz About Yourself Swings World View

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“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

“There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.”

Certain Ability Wonderful Fool Reader Scientist Newspapers Journalist Arrogance Categories Academic Pseudo Discounts

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.”

Way Humans Feelings Past Life Is Certain Imagination Human Beings Loss Ability Animal Quality Terror Disaster Indifference Streams Accurate Intuitive Rabbits Callousness

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”

“All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it.”

Ifs Humans Looks Body Certain Fighting Speak Language Ability Walks Study Information Opponents Gestures Human Body

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation.”

People Thinking Ideas War Certain Ability Conversation Beats Complicated Ridiculous Progressive Upbringing Affinity

Author:Anne Waldman

“But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.”

People Certain Literature Ability Common Evolution Plant Evolve Location Constrain

Author:Kevin Kelly

“Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.”

Different Real Dream Body Reality Desire Certain Ability Secret Skills Complexes Revenge Real Life Rebirth Secret Desire

Author:Takashi Miike

“Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.”

“A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that having a certain kind of temperament is more important than brains. You need to keep raw irrational emotion under control. You need patience and discipline and an ability to take losses and adversity without going crazy. You need an ability to not be driven crazy by extreme success”

People Needs Kind Important Certain Loss Ability Emotion Brain Crazy Discipline Terrible Adversity Extremes Driven Investors Irrational Temperament Going Crazy

Author:Charlie Munger

“Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Sometimes Stories Might Certain Ability Watches Millions Hard Work Limits Harder Storytelling Budgets Giants Work Harder

Author:Vince Gilligan

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