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“Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.”

Trying Made Ability Study Design Expression Skills Aspect Listeners Observers Facial Facial Expression Astute

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.”

Thinking Made Self Ability Awareness Buddhism Perception Conscious Perceive Who We Are Distinction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.”

People Inspirational Made Matter Stuff Ability Mistake Creative Projects Excellence Strive Busy Insignificant Too Busy Misfits Frivolity Striving For Excellence

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.”

Made Whole Young Girl Parent Ability Missing Needed Draws Drawing Whole Life Indispensable Restoration Bourgeois Woven Tapestry

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people.”

People Made Bigs Opportunity Ability Walks Deals Blind Musical Big Deal Great Opportunity Meeting New People

Author:Patrick Henry Hughes

“The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.”

Art Made Matter Ability Subjects Identity Originals Composer Transformed Harmonious Exhibits Subject Matter Profile Prerequisites Conjunctions Inverted Retrograde

Author:Glenn Gould

“The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.”

Years Made Reality Ability Fantasy Substance Wrestling Distinguished Fantasy And Reality Professional Wrestling

Author:Lou Thesz

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.”

Men Made Facts Lying Ability Class Succeed Encouragement Spite Comment Assistance Employers Scarce

Book:A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written

Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written

“Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.”

Has Beens Made Ability Effects Movement Lawyer Bombs Concentration Antiwar Troops Improving Precision Taliban Adviser Pentagon Clusters Weaponry

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.”

Feels Has Beens Made Passion Games Given Ability One Thing Talent Football Calling Blessing Accomplished My Passion My Blessing God Given Talents

Author:Terry Bradshaw

“What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.”

Made Dream America Ability Mankind

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find awaked in such a kind Both strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means, and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly.”

Mind Kind Mean Made Age Choices Ability Blood Policy Mines Fortune Quitting Invention Limbs Havoc Bad Life

Book:The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...

Source: The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...

“The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.”

Ifs Made States Hands Government President Ability Economy Century Policy China 21st Century Romney Global Economy Bathtubs

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“[On television:] It's made people moronic, it's robbed people of their ability to think. It's done tremendous damage, and every single household that has a small child should take it and throw it out the window.”

People Thinking Should Children Made Done Ability Television Window Damage Household Small Child

Author:Laurie Colwin

“I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.”

Made Ability Developing Mainstream Artifacts

Book:Within the Context of No Context

Source: Within the Context of No Context

“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

“And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress could have been made. Correspondence and succession, the two principles that permeate all mathematics - nay, all realms of exact thought - are woven into the very fabric of our number system.”

Source: Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician

“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

“Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If our mother made us feel secure and proud in our masculinity, then we want to find that again in our wife. If we are really comfortable with our mother, we can even marry a woman who is a friend rather than an adversary, and form a true partnership.”

Ifs Want Feels Made Enough Form Mother Fall Ability Wife Proud Comfort Comfortable Falling In Love Secure Partnership Masculinity Femininity Adversaries

Author:Frank Pittman

“One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.”

World Way Humans Made Time Understanding Change Ability Changed Standards Dues Saving Made It Clock Zone Savings Daylight Telegraph Time Zones Saving Time Daylight Savings

Author:James Gleick

“Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not simply a matter of seat belts, safe toys, safe air, water and food, additive-free baby foods, or improved television programming. These are all important issues, but to stop here is to forget that today's children will soon be adults. Technological decisions made today will determine, perhaps irrevocably, the kind of physical and social world we bequeath them and the kind of people they become.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.”

Source: Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

“The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.”

Thinking Knows World Want Firsts Made Stills Matter Character Facts Film Ability Watches Audience Type Directors Storytelling Despite Aliens Mastery Another World

Author:Nicholas Ozeki

“I've been blessed with some luck, great ability and athleticism. That's really what's made me a great player, but I think the reason I've been able to last this long is the little things like taking care of my body.”

Thinking Littles Long Made Reason Body Care Able Lasts Ability Player Blessed Luck Little Things Athleticism

Author:Champ Bailey

“Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.”

Men Humans Made Ability Brain Noise Wilderness End Times Spend Time

Author:Robert Anderson

“Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.”

Needs Giving Made President Ability Hell Kings Skills Let Me Management Dues Management Skills

Author:Tip O'Neill

“As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.”

Kind Made Book Choices Actors Loses Ability Acting Fashion Intellectual Appreciation Disappear Mystical Fascination Great Actors

Author:Rebecca Miller

“I would want to be known as a great singer; that the records I've made and the performances that I've done to be remembered. But the voice is the most important thing. The showmanship goes along with it. But I want to be remembered for my vocal ability.”

Want Made Important Done Voice Ability Known Records Performances Important Things Singers Remembered Vocal Showmanship

Author:Tom Jones

“Consciousness creates the body. Our bodies are made up of dynamic energy systems that are affected by our diets, relationships, heredity, and culture and the interplay of all these factors and activities... We cannot hope to reclaim our bodily wisdom and inherent ability to create health without first understanding the influence of our society on how we think about and care for our bodies.”

Thinking Firsts Made Body Care Culture Energy Understanding Ability Consciousness Influence Activity Factors Diets Our Society Affected Inherent Heredity

Author:Christiane Northrup

“Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?”

People World Kind May Made Feelings Able Belief Ability Stupid Intellectual Resources Connections Insight Intuition Clever Leap Denied Stupid People

Author:Stephen Fry

“I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.”

Knows Writing Made Dream School Film Order Language Goal Ability Effort Practice Rich Masters Paris Filmmaker Bad Things Journal Film School

Author:Abdellah Taia

“[In 2004 on being at TBWA Chiat Day for 30 years.] Different people are different in terms of the way they're made. I knew since the day I arrived at Chiat Day that I was at home, and that I was at a place where I could prove my talent and my ability... I am also married for 35 years too, so it could just be how I am.”

People Way Years Made Different Home Term Ability Talent Prove Married Different Peoples

Author:Lee Clow