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“Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.”

Wells Art Done Ability Quality Essentials Originals Enthusiasm Copies Definite Spontaneity Furious Reproduction Well Done Copying Ineffable

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.”

Spirit Interest Ability Views Common Creation Essentials Point Of View Dialogue Primaries Suspension

Author:David

“The ability to break a loved one's heart is the essential contradiction in human relationships.”

Humans Heart Women Ability Break Essentials Contradiction Loved Ones Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Amy Dickinson

“For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.”

Humans Human Beings Ability Essentials Dignity Crucial Being Free

Author:Izzeldin Abuelaish

“I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.”

Ifs Political Ability Economy Influence Achieve Essentials Function Independent Institutions Objectives Committees Political Influence

Author:Ben Bernanke

“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

“if you wish to train yourself for higher executive positions, the first thing for you to decide is what you are training for. Ability to dominate or manipulate others? That ought to be easy enough, since most of the magazines advertise sure ways of developing something they call 'personality.' But I am convinced that the first essential of business success is the capacity for organized thinking.”

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.”

Source: The Lessons of History

“The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the believer. Recognizing thoughts and imaginations of the heart is a prerequisite of bringing them 'captive to the obedience of Christ'.”

Heart Christ Imagination Ability Emotion Skills Essentials Believer Intense Obedience Motive Recognizing Captives Prerequisites Intense Emotions

Author:Lou Priolo

“The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.”

Evil Ability Essentials Core Grandeur Ability To Choose

Author:William P. Young

“You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.”

“We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.”

Humans Self Body Pain Nations Challenges Ability Becoming Essentials Illness Panic Human Body Intimidated Sissy Homeopathy Hypochondriac Self Medicating

Author:Norman Cousins