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“Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.”

Kind Ability Attention Influence Special Events Authority Presidential Obsessed Significance Pardon Perks Pardon Me

Author:Barbara Olson

“A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.”

Moments Able Past Ability Worry Player Events Crowds Related Here And Now Effectiveness Worrying About The Past

Author:John Brodie

“When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.”

Knows Men Spirit Opportunity Wish Ability Know How Successful Events Offers Fortune Conclusion Seize The Opportunity

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!”

Firsts Ability Events Depends Truth Is Adversity Accumulation

Book:The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness

Source: The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness

“If, as an actor, you allow yourself to be cocooned from the boring pin-pricks of day-to-day existence - like standing in a queue at the butcher's or any of the other dreary little events that we all have in our daily lives - you begin to lose your lifeline to what people are. And if you lose that, you eventually lose the ability to act.”

People Ifs Littles Actors Loses Ability Existence Events Standing Boring Daily Life Day To Day Pins Dreary Butchers Queues Lifelines

Author:Glenda Jackson

“Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.”

World May Happens Humanity Ability Levels Events Characteristics World Events

Author:Vera Brittain

“...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.”

Should Ability Events Theory Investing Assumption Judged Realism

Author:Milton Friedman

“The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.”

Important Moments Social Ability Steps Events Rewards Oneself Social Control

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.”

“It ticks me no end when people get ticked off at those of us who comment audibly and in print on events and problems. That's what we're paid for. Why clutter up your mind with a bunch of facts that might inhibit the solve-ability of us who must express an opinion? After all, all the world cries out for a solution to its problems, and we supply them right and left. Come to think of it, it's we who should be giving our deplorers and detractors the blast; because 99% of the time they don't do as we say.”

People Thinking World Giving Should Writing Mind Ends Facts Problem Might Left Ability Opinion Events Cry Solutions Paid Solve Bunch Print Comment Blast Clutter Tick

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.”

World Happens Eye Past Ability Vision Events Cameras Capture Viewers Uncanny Visions Of The Future

Author:A. O. Scott

“The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do . . . is dependent . . . on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.”

Process Ability Wise Events Who We Are Dependent Silver Discovering Stay Positive

Author:James Redfield

“The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.”

Men Persons Real Ability Events Connected Links Paranoia

Author:John Coleman