“Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.” WellsStatesMightRememberAbilityDuesSenateMentorIllinoisUncanny Author:Ron Fournier
“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.” ThinkingWellsEnoughIndividualAbilityInterestingAttentionPoetDependsShapesAgreeImpulseVisualsBad Things Author:James Laughlin
“Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.” MindWellsAbleEnjoyAbilityIncrediblesTangible Author:Donna Summer
“I always had the ability to throw a frisbee pretty well. I don't why.” WellsAbilityFrisbee Author:Joel Silver
“How do you develop your psychic abilities? Well, to begin with, naturally, you have to want to and believe that it is possible.” WantInspirationalBelieveWellsAbilityBuddhismPsychicsPsychic Abilities Author:Frederick Lenz
“I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.” KnowsWellsSelfSchoolBitsAbilityLowsAverageSelf Confidence Author:Peter Hollingworth
“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.” MenWellsEnergyAbilityPleasureResultsCreativeGreaterHe ManGeniusHabitEqualDiseaseCapacityCleanInstanceFormerUselessLatterEnduranceEvidentAgilityBeing EqualCreative Energy Author:Christian D. Larson
“A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.” IfsWellsAbilityMountainHeightDwarfsDwarvesColossus Author:Seneca the Younger
“Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.” WellsPersonsAbilityLimitsCommittedSelectedAxioms Author:Tom Peters
“There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.” WellsMayAbilityPlayerGenerationsPossibilityOne DayStatisticsDreadFuture Generation Author:Allan Border
“Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.” WellsArtDoneAbilityQualityEssentialsOriginalsEnthusiasmCopiesDefiniteSpontaneityFuriousReproductionWell DoneCopyingIneffable Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.” YearsHumansWellsChildrenHas BeensShowsGivenAbilityAdultsTasksComparisonVillageMonkeysBostonAmazonDots Author:Elizabeth Spelke
“We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.” WellsAbilityEconomyEconomicPolicyPrioritiesFlexibleEconomic PolicyAmerican EconomyAdaptive Author:John W. Snow
“My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.” PeopleWellsAbilityRocksBandDefinitionsContradictionRock N RollAttempting Author:David First