Best ability & individual Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Feels Writing Persons Important Character Stories Care Lying Individual Ability Core

Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.”

Individual Nations Ability Powerful Behinds Fronts Scene Historical Invisible Ambitious Spectacular Scenery Great Nations Behind The Scenes Controlling Government

Book:Critical Path

Source: Critical Path

“Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.”

Mind Persons Individual Ability Responsibility Danger Average Contrary Judgement Exceptional Average Person

Book:On War

Source: On War

“An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.”

Real Individual Ability Teacher Buddhism Empowerment Enlightened Ceremony Transfers Esoteric

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.”

Knows Mean Light Order Individual Ability Consciousness Claims Really Mean Succession Transmit Lama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.”

Individual Ability Crosses Awakening Rude Examination

Author:Catherine Crier

“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“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

“People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.”

People Thinking Way Self Individual Ability Changed Communication Mass Self Absorbed

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.”

People Needs Individual Ability Assumption

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.”

Persons Reason Able Individual Church Ability Weakness Institutions Threat Rationality Inability Teachable Individual Strength

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.”

Inspirational Sometimes Facts Individual Easy Ability Persevere Formidable

Book:Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities

Source: Adversity Quotient: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities

“It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.”

Giving May Doe Individual Energy Ability Successful Achievement Training Conscious Code Being Successful Inadequacy Individual Achievement

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.”

People Mean Able Individual Black Community Ability White Powerful Groups Personality Fit Slave Usual Black And White Colorful Intrigued

Author:Alex Haley

“the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.”

Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

“I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.”

Individual Voice Ability Determined Collectives Essays Representing

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.”

Age Individual Ability Numbers Progress Conclusion Transcendent Small Numbers

Book:In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

“For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given--in the breath of life--the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces--irrespective of other influences.”

Knows Men Littles Made Soul Might Individual Given Force Ability Creative Influence Angel Breaths Creator Companion Approval Stamps

Author:Edgar Cayce

“The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.”

“I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend or the icon and everybody's own individual version of what that is. She was badass! Really strong. And eccentric and fiery and powerful and clear and blunt. Spoke like a sailor. She was extreme, but she had the ability to love again and again and again and still believe in it every time.”

“The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.”

Past Individual Nations Ability Study Victory Foundation Lays Errors Empowering

Author:Aberjhani

“Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.”

Mind Humans Country Past Faces Individual Ability Masters Mirrors Resilience Fixed Officials Human Mind Dogma Frozen Reliance Impotence Inquiring

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.”

People Reason Home Government Individual Ability Support Arms Bears Speech Gun Supreme Hunting Ducks Freedom Of Speech Abusive Right To Bear Arms Burglars Supreme Power Duck Hunting

Author:Vince Vaughn

“Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.”

Men Character Individual Loses Ability Destructive Prosecution

Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and energy comparing my talents with those of others.”

Time Individual Energy Ability Talent Unique Happy Compare Time And Energy Precious Time Talents And Abilities Unique Individuals Unique Talents

Book:Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design

Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”

Men Littles Care Individual Ability Company Moral Habit Intellectual Appreciate Pursuit Spheres Companionship Who Cares

Book:SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter

Source: SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter

“As to freedom, it is cherished, it is hard to come by, it is hard to hang on to. But freedom without responsibility is chaos, so to those who push the idea that freedom would allow an individual to do anything, anywhere, at any time, I reject, your freedom ends where my ability to raise my family safely begins. So I would urge every American to vaccinate their children and I would reject any effort to stop vaccinations until someone can show me a scientific reason to do so.”

Children Ideas Ends Hard Reason Shows Individual Freedom Ability Effort Responsibility My Family Raises Chaos Urges Rejects Show Me Your Freedom Vaccinations

Author:Lindsey Graham

“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

“My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the government and not meddlesome third parties. This includes the ability for individuals to bargain collectively with their employers.”

Should Government Individual Ability Views Party Thirds Employment Employee Contracts Employers Bargains Negation Third Parties Personal Views Meddlesome

Author:Mark Noble

“It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.”

Individual Differences Ability Deals Personality Unexpected Success And Failure

Author:Ross Perot

“Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature”

Thinking Individual Term Ability Rooms Lord Ought Unique Billions Ems Standing Out

Author:Herbert Simon

“To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.”

Source: The Cloister Walk

“What the Republican National Committee did to Ron Paul was the height of rudeness and stupidity for this reason: Why would you alienate an individual who has the ability to attract a new generation of voters, who are already skeptical of your institution but are willing to at least listen through the vehicle of this individual and the words that he is saying? Why would you alienate them, get on the floor and not let them speak? Not have his name go up on the board and see the number of electoral votes that he receives? This is crazy!”

“Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.”

“I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals. I see a lot of those videos, and I am disturbed by people being yanked out of their cars, and it seems to be a disproportionate amount of young black men. I'm disturbed by it.”

People Thinking Men Use Seems Young Individual Force Black Ability Lord Car Amount Lifetime Video Disturbed

Author:Rand Paul

“The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.”

Way Feels Might Individual Ability Information Internet Promise Broads Rolling Invited Rip Alexandria Plenitude

Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.”

Problem Culture Individual Ability Existence Creativity Expression Solutions Something New Solution To A Problem

Author:Betty Edwards

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