Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The way to develop your psychic ability is by learning to create a shield between yourself and the sensorial and vibratory bombardment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and it is not for me but for the writer to offer the best role to me. For me,… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Cuisine Nouvelle was just a concept, and one which, crucially, the English managed to get wrong. I mean, if you run a… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and… — Edward Adam Strecker Copy Share Image
No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Actors used to concentrate on acting, but today they are businessmen, too, and think about the numbers game as well. They multi-task… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the… — Rahul Dravid Copy Share Image
I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old. — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours,… — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you… — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I always thought it was more interesting to think about Reed Richards. As you know, he had the ability to stretch, and… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The remarkable thing about Hitler was his talent for dissimulation. His formidable abilities as an actor are often overlooked. There are only… — Volker Ullrich Copy Share Image
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made… — Black Rob Copy Share Image
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again. — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you,… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams… — Larry Dixon Copy Share Image
I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long… — Tony Romo Copy Share Image
I'm proud to have represented England in four World Cups but it was hugely frustrating that we never reached a semi-final or… — James Anderson Copy Share Image
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun… — Alan King Copy Share Image
