Best mark & ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.”

Writing Children Persons Has Beens Character Stories Body Ability Judgment Mark Hearing Smell Actresses Louisiana

Author:Rebecca Wells

“My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.”

People Character Ability Mark Adversity Crisis Again And Again Tenacity Bounce

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.”

Persons Energy Ability Missing Lows Mark Aim Refuse Expected Settling Maturity Mature Mediocrity Harness Aim High Mature Person

Author:Ann Landers

“One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.”

Ability Greatness Mark True Greatness

Author:J. C. Macaulay

“The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.”

Mind Kind Persons Different Artist Lines Ability Brain Creativity Creative Design Mark Faults Thinker Different Kinds Storyteller Inventor Holistic Get Ahead

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.”

Source: The Prince

“I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large.”

People Way Trying Heart Character Passion Interest Ability Deals Acting Stage My Heart Mark Artistic My Passion

Author:Angela Bassett

“I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.”

Film Ability Mark

Author:Lars von Trier

“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.”

Action Passion Ability Mark Vigorous Midwife

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.”

Social Ability Leader Mark Exceptional Vigor

Author:Eric Hoffer

“If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.”

Ifs Would Be Choices Evil Loses Ability Moral Mark Agents Programming Robots

Book:Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions

Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions

“Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.”

Simple Ability Models Scientist Mark Mediocrity Signatures Great Scientist

Author:George E. P. Box

“Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text.”

People Thinking Way Mind Real Self Use Culture Ability Evidence Mark Notes Species Oneself Nostalgia Deception Motive Constructs Narrators Semblance

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“My motto in life is 'aim true'. It came from my love of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. She inspired me to sport a gold arrow around my neck because it reminded me of her strength and that I can always hit my mark when I set intention, follow what makes my heart beat, and aim true. The arrow was a reminder that I can cut through any obstacles, that I have power, beauty, and the ability to choose love over fear every moment of my life.”

“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.”

Age Voice Ability Race Quality Leader Four Integrity Evidence Capacity Mark Gender Great Leader Distinctive Ethnicity Exemplary Adaptive

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“One's ability to communicate a story visually, honestly, is a bridge of communication that transcends language because the true mark of a good film is that you can turn the sound off and watch it and have some understanding of what you're seeing.”

Stories Film Turns Language Understanding Sound Ability Watches Seeing Communication Mark Communicate Honestly Bridges Good Films Ability To Communicate

Author:Cheo Hodari Coker

“What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?”

Has Beens Country Dream Nations Ability Love Is Moral Greatness Broken Mark Depth Height Our Dreams Ruthless Great Nations Moral Failure

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.”

Fall Ability Hair Mark Presumption Diffidence

Author:Golda Meir

“The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.”

Sports Loss Ability Player Mark Defeat Champion Sports Psychology

Author:Sam Snead

“The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.”

Mind Facts Term Ability Virtue Clear Healthy Mark Mere Uncertainty Mature Precise Ambiguity Healthy Mind Obfuscation

Author:Julian Baggini

“He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin while you went out in the world and met the obligations required of you. Certainly he knew (though did not completely understand) that opera wasn't for everyone, but for everyone he hoped there was something. The records he cherished, the rare opportunities to see a live performance, those were the marks by which he gauged his ability to love.”

World Opportunity Lines Ability Records Mets Safe Performances Mark Obligation Opera True Life Live Performance Ability To Love Tchaikovsky Rare Opportunities

Author:Ann Patchett

“If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.”

Ifs Trying Kind Real Hard Helping Ability Practice Activity Mark Technique Acquire Bows Arrows Archery Bows And Arrows

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”

Ability Strange Mark Familiar Excess

Author:Walt Whitman

“No," said Simon. "I know we're not much compared to you, but we don't kill our friends. We try to save them. If Heaven didn't want it that way, we ought to have been given the ability to love." He shoved his hair back, baring the Mark more fully. "No, you don't need to help me. But if you don't, there's nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can't kill me. Think of it as me leaning on you Heavenly doorbell... forever.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Needs Trying Has Beens Said Helping Given Heaven Ability Forever Hair Ought Calling Mark Help Me Heavenly Again And Again Stopping Kill Me Ability To Love

Author:Cassandra Clare

“One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.”

Lying Ability Knowledge Knowing Teacher Students Mark Torture Great Teacher Impart

Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task well or not. The ability to give objective feedback to oneself is in fact the mark of the expert.”

Needs Giving Wells Facts Individual Strong Ability Business Opinion Judging Standards Tasks Mark Oneself Objectives Experts Internals Feedback

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.”

Men Giving Ability Mark Guilt Maturity Mature Mature And Immature

Author:Leo Baeck

“The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.”

Inspirational Leadership Ability Mark Refuse Excitement Midst Emergencies Poise

Author:Robert R. Shannon

“The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.”

Political Politics Ability Views Politician Losing Mark Seats Ability To Change

Author:Mo Udall

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