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“Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view - what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“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

“Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.”

Use Ability Products Invention

Book:To be equal

Source: To be equal

“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”

Humans Use Hands Language Ability Hot Instinct Surface

Author:Steven Pinker

“Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.”

Want Use Life Is Opportunity Ability Huge Privilege Trusted

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.”

Believe Art Use Artist Energy I Believe Ability Example I Believe In Lives Of Others

Book:Art & soul: notes on creating

Source: Art & soul: notes on creating

“As an exercise in appreciation, try for one hour to feel grateful for every single thing you find yourself doing. When you read, be grateful you can see and read. When you walk, be grateful for the use of your feet. When you talk, be grateful for the ability to communicate with others. For a full hour do not take even the smallest action for granted. Be aware of every detail of what you can do. Anyone who does this daily for even a short time will have a much greater appreciation for everything he does.”

“What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.”

Mind Use Wisdom Dies Ability Talent Native

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.”

Use Ability Quality Degrees Achievement Performances Increase Quantity Efficiency

Author:Brian Tracy

“Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?”

World Want Looks Whole Use Artist Ability Attention Whole World Recognition

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know too much," or at least never to reveal one's full abilities to management, because "the more they think you can do, the more they'll use you and abuse you." My mentors in these matters were not lazy; they just understood that there are few or no rewards for heroic performance. The trick lies in figuring out how to budget your energy so there'll be some left over for the next day.”

“The noise you hear after people see something you do - whether it's a TV show or a movie - that always makes you see that thing slightly differently. Without question. The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. And test-screening a movie can be helpful too. But the part that can be dangerous is when you take those notes as gospel, instead of taking them with a grain of salt. The key is to use the response as one of the tools in your box, as opposed to using it to determine what you do.”

People Use Shows Ability Dangerous Television Tvs Keys Advantage Tools Tests Series Notes Response Determine Boxes Noise Helpful Salt Grain Tv Shows Adjustment Screening Grain Of Salt

Author:J. J. Abrams

“The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.”

Ifs Men Use Able Ability Dangerous Ill Commonwealth

Author:Demosthenes

“The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.”

Use Ability Pay Masters Evidence Chiefs Servant

Book:THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…

Source: THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…

“One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.”

Wells May Long Has Beens Reason Use Ability Periods Distance Chiefs Long Distance Horseshoes

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.”

Source: A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.”

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Book:Nancy Crow

Source: Nancy Crow

“Your ability to use mind whatever way you choose is outrageous. Much will depend upon how intensely you approach the study and the state of mind in which you begin.”

Way Mind States Use Ability Study Depends Approach Mysticism State Of Mind You Choose Outrageous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do.”

Children Use Opportunity Force Ability Compassion Discipline Integrity Mercy Our Children Punishment External Forces

Author:Barbara Coloroso

“The benefits of positive emotions don't stop after a few minutes of good feelings subside. In fact, the biggest benefit that positive emotions provide is an enhanced ability to build skills and develop resources for use later in life.”

Facts Use Feelings Ability Emotion Minutes Skills Benefits Resources Good Feeling Later In Life Positive Emotions

Author:Barbara Fredrickson

“We have the ability to choose, we are God's higher form of creation, we surpass all other forms of life and we don't use the mental faculties we've been given. We don't even understand what we are capable of doing. School doesn't teach us anything about ourselves. So the more we learn about ourselves, the more we take control over our life.”

Use School Form Given Ability Teach Our Lives Creation Higher Capable Faculty Take Control Ability To Choose

Author:Bob Proctor

“in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.”

“The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America to gain full use of the talents and abilities of all her people. They would develop new innovations to improve our lives, or help build the next great American company.”

People Thinking Mean Helping Use America Next Ability Company Poverty Millions Our Lives Talent Despair Gains Resources Innovation Trapped Great American Talents And Abilities

Author:Marco Rubio

“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.”

People Knows Writing Trying Kind May Use Dream Speak Language Sound Black Ability Race Taken Pieces Ten Tradition Twenties Tongue Black People Multiplicity Speaking In Tongues

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.”

Use Leadership Ability Leader Information Concern Customers Speed Expertise Withholding Top Down

Author:Sally Helgesen

“Money is a response. We use it to express our social values, our gratitude, our appreciation, our pleasure, our support. Money gives us the ability to respond (response-ability), and its empowering use often defines the truly responsible among us.”

Giving Use Values Social Ability Pleasure Support Gratitude Responsible Response Appreciation Empowering Social Values

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.”

People Men I Can Different Whole Use Shows Film Ability Player Team Projects Passionate Different Things One Man Team Player

Author:Ice Cube

“Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you dont use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.”

Ifs Way Art Use Lost Ability Technology Communication Keys Skills Disappear Networking Way To Live Verbal Communication

Author:Rick Pitino

“What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.”

Ends Use Language Ability Economy Imagery Visual Imagery

Author:Mos Def

“A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.”

Doe Art Self Use Actors Ability Roles Training Performances Mastery Lighters

Book:Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends

Source: Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends

“Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.”

Thinking Wells Mean Use Ability Land Source Waste Winter Oil Forests Touching Crops Usage Sewage Biofuels

Author:Vinod Khosla

“Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.”

Ifs Way Giving Reason Use Natural Ability Birth Let Me Philosophical Characteristics Innate

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.”

People Ifs Want Needs Enough Use Kids Turns Given Chance Ability Decision Support Drink Drug Preacher Talk To Me Enough Love Soapbox

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”

Use Age Ability Brain Environment Shapes Computer Machines Muscles Digital Engines Our Environment Steam Descendants Mental Power Steam Engines

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.”

World Humans Use Problem Bigs Ability Data Make Sense Entering Big Problems

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.”

Giving Art Helping Use Courses Causes Ability Views Holy Pure Judgment Doctors Sick Poison Abortion Injury Treatment Wrongdoing

Author:Hippocrates

“Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.”

Two Reason Use Ability Skills Theory And Practice

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.”

“They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.”

Way Needs Use Women Ability Power Support Development Limits Feminist Developing Limitation Appropriate Improving Diminish Effectiveness Advancing Dealings

Author:Jean Baker Miller

“On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.”

Want Feels Should Important Reason Use Hands Reality Given Enjoy Ability Focus Exercise Healthy Tension Activist Vocation

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“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

“But it is important to realize we are all trapped in mental constructs, and so we separate ourselves from reality; the whole world loses its aliveness-or, rather, we lose our ability to sense that aliveness, the sacredness of nature. When we approach nature through the conceptualizing mind, we see a forest as a commodity, a concept. We no longer see it for what it truly is, but for what we want to use it as. It is reduced. This is how it becomes possible for humans to destroy the planet without realizing what they are doing.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.”

Use Christian Order Courses Ability Compassion Meditation Buddhism Method Forgiving Technique Devotion Buddhist Monk Nun

Author:Dalai Lama

“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?”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.”

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Author:Alice Walker

“There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.”

People Thinking Humans Play Use Games Language Ability Evolution Couple Comfortable Tools Zero Human Evolution Zero Sum Game Watersheds

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.”

Ifs Thinking Use Ability Materials Communicate Ability To Communicate

Author:Marc Quinn

“I use both instruments with their strengths in mind. Mandolin - no sustain and attack of the right hand, for rhythm. Fiddle - use sustain of the bow and the ability to slide the non-fretted notes, like singing.”

Mind Use Hands Ability Singing Instruments Notes Rhythm Bows Slides Fiddle

Author:Sam Bush

“The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.”

People Way Humans Different Stories Use Turns Language Grows Human Beings Ability Growing Up Listening Creatures Complexes Being Different Eloquent

Author:Flemming Rose

“We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.”

Use Christian Natural Leadership Ability Responsible Strategic Endowment Natural Ability Use Of Time

Book:Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books