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“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

“I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.”

People Bigs Lines Ability Skills Believer Unusual Untapped Potential

Author:Blake Roney

“There is the finest line between data and evidence.”

Lines Ability Evidence Data Finest

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.”

Needs Sometimes Motivational Lines Ability Failing Talent Lays Scared Never Quit Deep Down

Author:Chrissie Wellington

“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

“At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.”

Firsts Wells Lines Wealth Ability Poor Pay Rich Citizens Workers Income Doctrine Corporations Widows Waitress Housemaids

Book:Income Tax: Root of All Evil

Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil

“The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.”

People Problem Happens Lines Ability Love Is Response Bottom Idiot Bottom Line

Author:Marianne Williamson

“I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.”

Thinking Mind Heart Winning Lines Ability Behinds Enemy Special Heart And Mind

Author:Conor Oberst

“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.”

Mind Kind Persons Different Artist Lines Ability Brain Creativity Creative Design Mark Faults Thinker Different Kinds Storyteller Inventor Holistic Get Ahead

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.”

Inspirational Strong Growth Lines Ability Results Records Generations Thirds Quarters Cash Diverse Margins Global Business

Author:Jack Welch

“We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.”

Ifs Government Running Lines Ability Company Ought Ceo Items Private Sector Veto

Author:John Raese

“There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.”

People Way Care Lines Ability Money Pay Class Seeing One Thing Coaches Priorities Health Care Perks Amenities

Author:Arthur Caplan

“The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.”

Needs Lines Ability Clear Media Range Spheres Superhero Dividing

Author:Stephen Hawking

“In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.”

Art Lines Ability Fire Particular Battle Mass Heavy Concentrating Artillery Siege

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So I have to have fine line between teaching and writing. I try not to ever think of career. I just try to go to the dream world every day.”

Thinking World Writing Trying Wells Dream Lines Ability Compassion Careers Teaching Fine Draws Reserves Fine Lines Dream World

Author:Andre Dubus