You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I have my parents to keep me in check, a team that loves me, and I have the ability to go out… — Brian Ortega Copy Share Image
I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score… — Christine Sinclair Copy Share Image
You can't surprise LeBron any more. He's such a smart player. His intellect has caught up with his athletic ability. — Dwane Casey Copy Share Image
I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Congress has created and funded a huge peacetime military that has substantial abilities to wage offensive operations, and it has not placed… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
At the higher stage of communism, when the productive forces will be greatly developed and the principle "from each according to his… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
I always want to be the best at what I do. As a kid, whatever I was doing, if I was playing… — Lewis Hamilton Copy Share Image
When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I ended up in TV because I have no ability to do anything else. I have an agent who tells me where… — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games.… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In short, we can see Karpov as an exploiter of other people’s ideas. His ability to use these ideas is not at… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people… — Arie de Geus Copy Share Image
Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing. — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Willpower determines success in business, interpersonal relationships, health, whatever it is. All the activities in your life, success and failure in them,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think kids relate to me because I have some ability to remain a little bit naive. Even during interviews. Mostly during… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years. — Dennis Quaid Copy Share Image
Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Basketball players, the good ones, are no one-shot specialisls. This is a game which puts a premium on your ability to hit… — George Mikan Copy Share Image
I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work… — Salvatore Ferragamo Copy Share Image
Sadly, commercially-produced, frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane because the vegetables are flash-cooked before they are frozen. — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
I started boxing at 12, and I was above weight for my age, so they put me in the ring with adults...… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some… — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue.… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
