“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsLooksThreeAbilityFourHavensConsumersOnlineFour Years Author:Stuart Rose
“Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star.” MenWayStillsEyeFatherHeavenStarsAbilitySilenceDoubtHavensMusic IsBirdHealHis EyesInherentSilence IsAcheSparrowsWatchersForlornWomen's Beauty Author:Donald E. Williams, Jr.
“I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.” PeopleThinkingShouldHumansWishAbilityHavensCircumstancesDegreesDignityHopefullySomedayDiscoveringWish You Author:Rachel Corrie
“All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.” IfsWritingPersonsHas BeensDifferentKidsLastsArtistGuyAbilityOur LivesHappenedHavensDrawsYeahCome UpSecureTwelveGreat ArtEighteenBeing DifferentGreat ArtistCobblers Author:John Lennon
“Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.” HumansSocialAbilityViolenceMediaHavensChangedInternetCapacityFundamentalsSocial MediaAttributesInteractionPropensitySocial Interaction Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.” PeopleTryingKindAbilityHavensBenefitsInterfereBad PeopleResentVery Deep Author:Jack Kirby
“Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, and there is such anger coming out of Washington about immigrants that I think it has curtailed the ability of local folks here to hire immigrants, .. I really believe it starts from the top, and the policy continues to be one of ignoring people at the bottom, cutting taxes for those on the top and spending a lot of money for a war built on lies.” PeopleThinkingBelieveWarLyingAbilityCuttingHavensPolicyTaxesBuiltAngerBottomFolksSpendingLocalsImmigrantsComing OutLots Of MoneyInflationSalarySpending A Lot Of MoneyIgnoring People Author:Jose Serrano
“One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.” ThinkingTryingYearsDoneNextLosesAbilityComedyHavensChangedWeightYesterdayQueensAuditionsNext Year Author:Sally Phillips
“There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.” IfsKnowsArtAbilityHavensMastersArt IsSightWideRangeExpertsNovicesPlain Sight Author:Peter Thiel
“Our ability to study the brain has been limited because of our tools and our tools have only allowed us to look at one neurotransmitter and we haven't looked so much into co-localization and co-release of transmitters. Our thinking is hampered by our tools.” ThinkingLooksHas BeensAbilityBrainStudyHavensToolsReleaseNeurotransmitters Author:Carl Hart