Ability Quotes

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Sometimes you need to be terrified to your bones, in order for you to find your way to safety. Pain somewhat has this ability to… — Rita Zahara
The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of… — Ajahn Sumedho
Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to… — Otis Chandler
My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability. — Cardale Jones
Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff...… — Barbara Cook
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. — Toni Morrison
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life. — Carl Jung
I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling… — Tony Kushner
What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives. — Naomi Campbell
Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it,… — Dale Carnegie
We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since itâ€™s impossible to measure… — Paulo Coelho
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me. — Gary Shteyngart
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination… — Willa Cather
The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable, — Paul Wolfowitz
I love fashion. What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that… — Tom Ford
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner
There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get… — Tom Clancy
The immensity of the universe didnâ€™t suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that greater light, mankind… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of… — Satya Nadella

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