Ability Quotes

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Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence. — Martin Seligman
Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees." — T. Harv Eker
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody… — Walter E. Williams
Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it… — Thomas Szasz
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone… — T. Harv Eker
There's nothing wrong with getting a steady paycheck, unless it interferes with your ability to earn what you're worth. There's the rub. It usually does. — T. Harv Eker
...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis,… — Garry Kasparov
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as… — Thomas W. Moore
All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found… — Ernst Mayr
...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out. — David McCullough
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the… — Donald Cram
Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger-… — Andy Stern
Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler, Cavalieri, Pascal, Fermat,… — W. W. Rouse Ball
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself. — Brian Tracy

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