Best ability & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.”

Ifs Persons Real Actors Ability Offers

Author:Kevin Pollak

“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Years Looks Three Ability Four Havens Consumers Online Four Years

Author:Stuart Rose

“If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.”

Ifs Self Ability Defense Vulnerable Sensitive Psychics Self Defense Psychic Abilities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.”

Ifs Mind Ends States Moving Ability Awareness Buddhism Higher State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

Ifs Writing Ability Losing Tasks Selling Enthusiasm Persistent Lifelong

Author:Winston Churchill

“However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.”

Ifs Self Moving Ability Doubt Acquire Self-doubt

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.”

Ifs World Inspirational Feelings Able Ability This World Buddhism Sorry Betterment Feeling Sorry Feeling Sorry For Yourself Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.”

Ifs Mind Memories Ability Meditation Talent Buddhism Each Day Wiser Our Memories Razors Superb Retention Talents And Abilities New Talent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.”

“If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?”

Ifs Sports Ability Waste Athletic Athletic Ability

Author:Isaiah Mustafa

“Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.”

Ifs Use Ability Attention Stones Hood Stepping Stones Flashy

Author:Richard Widmark

“My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.”

Ifs Believe Ability Taught Dad Sells My Dad Salesman

Author:Marilyn Manson

“And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Children Given Ability Creative Psychology Birth Female Urges Linked

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.”

Ifs Thinking School Ability Player Football College High School Nfl Football Player College Football Nfl Players Good College Good High School

Author:Robert Griffin III

“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”

Ifs Thinking Long States Government Able Growth Term Ability United United States Economy Obligation Long Term Global Economy

Author:Charles Bass

“Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my movement through space if not time, and the obedience, however temporary, of my body to my will. As I run I displace air, and things come and go around me, and the path moves like a filmstrip beneath my feet.”

Ifs Body Running Moving Ability Space Existence Path Air Feet Movement Solitude Survival Proof Obedience Temporary Calmness Comes And Goes Euphoria

Book:The Time Traveler's Wife

Source: The Time Traveler's Wife

“If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.”

Ifs Ability Bored Boredom Stale

Author:Dean Koontz

“If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.”

Ifs Ability Grief Sadness Willing

Book:Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief

Source: Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief

“This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.”

Ifs Knows Giving Body Past Science Asks Ability Knowledge Tools Accounts Originals Cumulative

Author:C.P. Snow

“What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from.”

Ifs Littles Happens Motivational Opportunity Ability Views Quality Our Lives Perspective Everyday Determined What If

Author:Hal Elrod

“The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?”

Ifs Want Firsts Success Ability Secret Steps Car Masters Fit Everyday Bags Gym First Steps Packs Secret To Success Physically Fit

Author:Hal Elrod

“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.”

“Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.”

Ifs Might Force Ability Power Position Coerce

Book:The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

Source: The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle: How to Become a Servant Leader

“Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to be lies and deception. You can believe it's the truth only after you question, exhaust every avenue, and find that their story checks out. If you're a patriot, it's your duty to always question your government anyway, at every turn. A patriot is loyal to his country and his countrymen, not his government.”

“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

“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

“If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Hands Bigs Artist Next Ability Greatness Tests Pockets Coming Out Very Deep Soulless

Author:Lady Gaga

“I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.”

Ifs Needs Believe Littles Ends I Believe Ability Have Faith Persuading

Author:Chuck Grassley

“If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened.”

Ifs Want Happens Ability Happened Make It Happen

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right.”

Ifs Ability Decision Right Decision Make The Right Decision

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.”

Ifs Light Ability Absolutes Speed Vacuums Kites Speed Of Light

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.”

Ifs Hard House Ability White Republican Limits Congress Ties Agendas White House Momentum Disarray

Author:Calvin Jillson

“Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.”

Ifs May Ideas Reason Problem Sides Ability Moral Creativity Progress Conflict Consequence Tests Practicals Handle Consistency Betterment Adequacy

Author:Rudolph Rummel

“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.”

Ifs Years Today School Ability Money Education Millions Greater Youth College High School Increase Educate Graduates 1960s Graduating High School Enrollment Today's Youth

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.”

“Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!”

Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...

“We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.”

Ifs Men World Long Natural Ability Responsibility Genius Conservative Treated Preserves Almighty Natural World Adversaries Sustaining

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.”

Ifs Men Persons Can Do Ability Business Successful Honesty Honor Profession Chosen Honorable Deserving Successful Person

Author:Will Rogers

“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.”

People Ifs Writing May Light Felt Can Do Ability Effort Quality Successful Particular Bottom Being Successful Recalls Temperature

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“Putting gloves on the fighters was a symbolic change that suggested that we were now making it a civilized sport, and it was no longer this crazy gladiatorial throwback to ancient Rome. It's even in our language: If you want to get serious and violent, what do you do? You "take the gloves off." Bare-fisted is supposedly a much more dangerous way to hit someone. But we've got it completely backward. The glove is a weapon. It massively accentuates the ability of the fist to do harm.”

Ifs Way Want Language Sports Ability Crazy Dangerous Serious Weapons Ancient Harm Violent Fighter Civilized Rome Fists Symbolic Gloves Ancient Rome Accentuate Throwback

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise is true, but the conclusion does not follow. For though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief. What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”

Ifs May Doe Said Shows Seems Belief Causes Ability Shots Argument Philosophical Climate Conviction Rational Conclusion Abandoned Premises

Author:Austin Farrer

“The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.”

Ifs Believe Humans Shows Stars Ability Race Creatures Human Race Remarkable

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.”

Ifs Giving Feels Years Real Happens Night Ability Regret Losing Competition Athlete Bother Athletic Real Things Homework Assignments Athletic Competition

Author:Chael Sonnen

“If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.”

Ifs Ability

Author:Scooter Braun

“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.”

Ifs Feels Doe Matter Pain Suffering Force Lines Ability Doubt Cry Greatness Weak Slave Internals Distress Weak Women

Book:The Gay Science

Source: The Gay Science

“I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.”

Ifs Thinking Ability Creativity Environment Written Details Designer Description Minimum Playwright Input Playwriting

Author:August Wilson

“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.”

“The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country - or, for that matter, a region - to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food. How can a government, entrusted with the safety and health of its people, conscientiously barter away in the name of an economic idea that people's ability to feed itself? And if people lose their ability to feed themselves, how can they be said to be free?”

People Ifs Said Ideas Country Matter Government Names Loses Ability Issues Economic Produce Capacity Safety Trade International Regions International Trade

Author:Wendell Berry

“True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.”

Ifs Process Leadership Ability Teaching Example Setting Settings Empowering Followers True Leader True Leadership Empowering Others Setting An Example

Book:Simple secrets of success: what scientists have learned and how you can use it

Source: Simple secrets of success: what scientists have learned and how you can use it

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