Ability Quotes

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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes… — Napoleon Hill
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. — A. E. Housman
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. — Elbert Hubbard
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. — Adolf Hitler
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. — Eric Hoffer
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to… — Eric Hoffer
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. — Hans Hofmann
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can… — Lou Holtz
I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald. — Lena Horne
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. — Elbert Hubbard
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work. — Elbert Hubbard
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. — Elbert Hubbard
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done,… — Aldous Huxley
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. — Lee Iacocca
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. — Washington Irving
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. — Walter Isaacson
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary… — Ernest Istook
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to… — Ernest Istook
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that… — Alphonso Jackson
I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we… — Naveen Jain

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