Best connections & ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.”

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Author:Ally Sheedy

“What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.”

People May Political Voice Ability Pay Duty Resources Connections Regard Kingdoms Ministers Considering Disposition Arena Acquaintance Rectitude

Author:Charles James Fox

“[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections. It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.”

“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

“My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.”

Ifs Language Wish Ability Connections British Conception Severe English Language Englishmen Dominion

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.”

Men I Can Real Feelings Remember Young Ability Boys Connections Young Man Old Days Playing Music Real Connection

Author:Joel Plaskett

“The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.”

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Author:J. M. Coetzee

“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

“Connection, the ability to feel connected, is neurobiologically wired, that’s why we’re here!”

Feels Ability Connections Connected

Author:Brené Brown

“As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).”

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Author:Michael Hersch

“We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.”

Action Universe Process Understanding Ability Compassion Creative Meditation Evolution Conscious Connections Stillness Creative Process Accelerate

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I think that one of the reasons that we chose the word love as the subject is because your human connection and how you affect everybody around you, you'll only understand the gravity of that as you pass later on in life. I think as artists it's our ability to communicate that in certain ways.”

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Author:Tom DeLonge

“An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.”

“There is a connection between environment and stress on both ends, with excessive clutter and excessive attention to detail both holding the power to distract us from our ability to love fully, work productively and relax effectively. So, what makes sense to me is for each of us to think this through on a few fronts: what constitutes a comfortable environment for us, how much effort we're willing to put into it relative to other priorities, and how well-matched we need our partners' preferences to be to ours.”

“We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.”

Ifs Voice Ability Praying Quiet Connections Guides Inner Voice

Author:David LaChapelle

“Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.”

Motivational Ability Connections Perceive

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.”

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Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.”

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Author:Tim Hansen

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