Ability Quotes

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I've seen people recover physical abilities, yet never get over emotional trauma after a serious accident. I've seen other people overcome the psychological and emotional… — Jim Stovall
Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly. — Victor Manuel Rivera
Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly. — Wes Fesler
The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by… — Robert Sternberg
We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and… — Doris "Granny D" Haddock
No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate.… — Cory Booker
It is the ability to choose which makes us human. — Madeleine L'Engle
The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability… — Peter Drucker
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.… — Mortimer Adler
If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork,… — Rod Dixon
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note. — Igor Stravinsky
Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested… — William Redington Hewlett
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all -… — Bella Abzug
Already the pitch has been reached in Great Britain where it is considered bigoted or reactionary to do other than praise the Jews for their… — Sidney Robertson Cowell
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench.… — Charles Schumer
If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that… — Billy Graham
Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the… — Stephen LaBerge
Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was… — LaVell Edwards
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow. — Buck Rodgers

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