“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.” MenPersonsOrderBornChanceAbilityDependsCircumstancesNobleMeritDistinctionDispositionPublic ServiceParadesAncestryNotoriousAmiableInsolencePedigree Author:Seneca the Younger
“Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. As long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. And until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.” PersonsLongSelfFoundCan DoAbilityInterestingConditionsDeterminedToleranceBarriersWillingnessControlledDeterminismAberration Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“Modern brain-scan technology has revealed that each person shapes a completely unique brain. Other studies have documented the amazing regenerative ability of the brain, which can be reshaped by the power of your mind to bring you the world you desire. Knowing that, the obvious question arose: Why not use your mind to create the brain you want, using conscious choice?” WorldWantMindPersonsUseDesireChoicesAbilityBrainTechnologyKnowingStudyModernShapesUniqueConsciousObviousWhy NotWant U Author:Deepak Chopra
“And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.” IfsThinkingTryingPersonsCharacterFallProcessAbilityFalling In LoveValuableActressesInterfere Author:Meryl Streep
“If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.” PeopleIfsTryingPersonsAbilityRoomsTalentIronSurroundSmarterSurround Yourself Author:Jake M. Johnson
“When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have somebody say, "This is what I want you to do" and to stretch your abilities.” WantKindPersonsSometimesAbilityNiceI Want You Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The nature of spiritual awakening is frequently misunderstood. The adoption of spiritual beliefs, seeing visions of God or celestial beings, the ability to channel, to heal, to foretell the future, or other paranormal powers - all such phenomena are of value and are not to be dismissed, but none of them is in itself indicative of spiritual awakening in a person who experiences them.” PersonsSpiritualValuesBeliefAbilityVisionSeeingAwakeningHealParanormalAdoptionMisunderstoodSpiritual AwakeningCelestialSpiritual Beliefs Author:Eckhart Tolle
“It's a big mistake when encyclopedias say "loyal" - this dog, this breed has this ability to be loyal, to be a one person dog. I don't agree with that. I think all dogs are honest, all dogs have integrity, all dogs are loyal and they're all capable of loving you. It doesn't come from the breed. It comes from the dog.” ThinkingPersonsBigsAbilityMistakeHonestDogIntegrityCapableAgreeLoyalLoving YouEncyclopediaBig Mistake Author:Cesar Millan
“I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.” PeoplePersonsAbilityStyleColorJudgingHairSkinsSightDisabilityClothingsBlindnessSkin Color Author:Patrick Henry Hughes
“No matter how old you are, if you're just not an empathetic person, it's a lot easier to concentrate solely on something that is injuring another person to even some score. Hopefully as people grow older, their ability to empathize deepens.” PeopleIfsPersonsMatterGrowsAbilityEasierHopefullyScoreOld YouEmpathetic Author:James Scott
“Part of being a great restaurant chef is having an ability to bring all those people together, rather like a captain on a rugby field or a coach. It's also being a great teacher, because I'm only one person in a kitchen of 10 and I need to be able to bring all those people together and to teach them. I need to be able to communicate my thoughts and my process to them.” PeopleNeedsPersonsAbleTogetherProcessAbilityTeachTeacherFieldsCommunicateCoachesKitchenRestaurantsCaptainsChefMy ThoughtsRugbyGreat TeacherGreat Restaurants Author:Paul Rankin
“Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.” PeopleGivingFeelsPersonsDoneHandsTogetherGrowsAbilityFeetTenDown AndCookingSelf ConfidenceTallInvites Author:William Katt
“I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.” PersonsFatherGivenAbilityHusbandCatholicAttributesGood PersonGood FatherGood HusbandCatholic Faith Author:Mark Wahlberg
“The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.” PersonsProblemAbilityHealingSuccessfulConflictTestsDifficultyWork OutAriseSuccessful Person Author:David J. Schwartz
“The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.” MenPersonsRealAbilityEventsConnectedLinksParanoia Author:John Coleman
“I'm somewhat antagonistic towards these various projects that charge $250,000 per person for the ability to be weightless for 3 minutes after being brought up from earth. I think there are such better uses for that money that i seriously question the ethics of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on space flights for extremely wealthy people.” PeopleThinkingPersonsUseEarthAbilitySpaceMinutesProjectsEthicsDollarsVariousSpendingFlightWealthySpace Flight Author:Arthur Frommer
“Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind and make you realize that will make you realize and help you to seguey into transcendence and perform certain acts, adopt a certain lifestyle, you develop new capacities of mind and heart, just like the dancer, or the athlete that make you into a whole human being and principle after one of these disciplines right across the board in all of the faiths is compassion, the ability to feel with the other person.” IfsWayFeelsMindHumansHeartPersonsWholeHelpingCertainFoundRealizingHuman BeingsAbilityCompassionPrinciplesDisciplineCapacityAthleteLifestyleBehaveBoardsDancerRitualHeart And MindTranscendence Author:Karen Armstrong
“I want to fall on the floor laughing - imagining Hillary Clinton working well in the Senate with everybody else! Oh, give me a break. I've already joked in print that they would need to build her a private cloakroom on the Mall. This is not a woman who has any ability to deal with the mass of humanity. She is the most arrogant, the most moralistic, the most sermonizing and annoying person on earth.” WantNeedsGivingWellsPersonsEarthHumanityFallAbilityDealsBreakLaughingMassGive MeClintonPrintAnnoyingSenateArrogantMallsMost Arrogant Author:Camille Paglia
“Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.” PersonsWealthAbility Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I'm a very visual person and I love the ability to tell stories through images.” PersonsStoriesAbilityVisuals Author:Mandana Dayani
“Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don`t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantGivingPersonsTwoOpportunityGivenInterestCan DoHoursAbilityLifetimeRateProductivityManageProductiveCompoundsCompound Interest Author:Richard Hamming
“No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.” ThinkingPersonsRealizingAbilityBreatheMarvelousJust Do It Author:Susan Meissner
“The original meaning of the word tact referred to the sense of touch (as in 'tactile'), and came to mean skill in dealing with persons or sensitive situations. Tact is defined as: 'intuitive perception, especially a quick and fine perception of what is fit and proper and right.' It alludes to one's ability to conduct delicate negotiations and personal matters in a way that recognizes mutual rights, and yet leads to a harmonious solution.” WayMeanPersonsMatterAbilitySituationRightsFineFitSkillsPerceptionSolutionsOriginalsDefinedSensitiveMutualDelicateNegotiationIntuitiveHarmoniousTactTactilePersonal Matter Author:J. Oswald Sanders
“A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.” PersonsAbilityCreativeDegreesDirectProportionDecrease Author:Eric Hoffer
“...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of the rules of a well-run corporation is that surprise is to be minimized. Yet if this rule were applied to the creative process, nothing worth reading would get written, nothing worth seeing would get painted, nothing worth living with and using would ever get designed.” IfsWellsPersonsRunningReadingProcessAbilityCreativeWrittenSeeingSurpriseCorporationsCreative ProcessTolerateAmbiguityWorth LivingHallmarkCreative PersonInconsistencyDissonanceWorth Reading Author:Ralph Caplan
“The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly.” PersonsAbilityAmountAccountsStartingDeterminedManageBank Accounts Author:Sunday Adelaja