Ability Quotes

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Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to… — Dee Hock
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible… — Ben Bernanke
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony. — David Suzuki
The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence. — Kathleen Turner
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. — Stevie Wonder
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is… — Stephen Covey
Success is that old ABC: ability, breaks and courage. — Charles Luckman
Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have… — Jiri Kylian
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the… — Jack Lemmon
Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality. — Lee Strasberg
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. — Joseph Campbell
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and… — Sharon Salzberg
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart. — James Madison
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of… — Virginia Gildersleeve
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the… — Daniel Mazia
Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's… — Neil Kinnock
Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. — Brian Tracy
His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and himself… — John McLeod
Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles. — Andrew S. Gilbert

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