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“Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right there in front of you without having to sift through a lot of thoughts and theories and, yes, expensive fishing tackle.”

Ability Sea Fronts Fields Masters Theory Enlightenment Rivers Fishes Boat Expensive Lakes Fishing Ability To See Zen Master

Book:Trout Bum

Source: Trout Bum

“In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.”

People Wells Ability Cities Fashion Theory Dresses Urges Pace Great Cities

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.”

Should Ability Events Theory Investing Assumption Judged Realism

Author:Milton Friedman

“The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.”

“A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidiness express themselves prematurely at times, and excessively at others, but a good descriptive taxonomy, as Darwin found in developing his theory, and as Newton found in the work of Kepler, is the mother of laws and theories.”

Law Mother Certain Found Ability Students Theory Type Intellectual Strikes Developing Compulsion Impatient Newton Pedantry Kepler Taxonomy

Author:Raymond Cattell

“The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.”

Sports Ability Fans Theory Fuel Sports Fan

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.”

Lost Natural Ability Theory Curiosity Conspiracy Refuge Conspiracy Theory Natural Curiosity

Book:Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

“There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology.”

Helping Ability Issues Theory Skills Tools Crosses Diverse Puzzles Outspoken Terminology Freestyle Vernacular Music Theory Thesaurus Spacing

Author:Myka 9

“Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims which (many) naturalists wish to make in epistemology. I don't think this is right about Quine, but I'm certain it's not right about my own view. To the extent that I can show that talk of knowledge is firmly rooted within empirical theories where it plays an important explanatory role, I thereby demonstrate its naturalistic credentials.”

Thinking Kind I Can Important Play Shows Certain Wish My Own Ability Views Roles Theory Claims Arguing Rooted Epistemology Naturalist Credentials

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.”

Fall Left Ability Theory Betrayal Propaganda

Author:Tony Blair

“My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director over at the gym where I grew up and learned about all those awesome things I told you about already. She was the one who taught me terms like "upstage" and "downstage," all those technical things about the art of what I do - how to breathe what I see, how to move. They were all her tactics, not anything learned or given to me through a theory, but rather by her natural abilities.”

“I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.”

Thinking Past Natural Ability Leader Theory Training Management Exposure Great Leader Natural Ability

Author:Colin Powell