Ability Quotes

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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we… — John Cheever
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction. — Russell Baker
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated… — Margaret Mead
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public… — Henrik Ibsen
What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard… — Loren Eiseley
What is national freedom if not a peopleâ€™s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? — Ahad Ha'am
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden.… — Greg Peterson
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality. — Thomas A. Edison
Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and… — Owen Gingerich
Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability. — Priscilla Shirer
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability. — W. Somerset Maugham
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the… — Bill Walton
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on… — Andy Rooney
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. — Albert Einstein
... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the… — Albert Einstein
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or… — James A. Baldwin

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