Ability Quotes

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Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute… — Ron Wyden
It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to… — Jay Rockefeller
We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett
Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy. — Jan Schakowsky
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to… — M.F.K. Fisher
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. — Alice Miller
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as… — Jack Kornfield
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value… — Thomas Merton
I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate… — Richard Wilbur
The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we… — Atul Gawande
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution, Harris does it… — Ezekiel Emanuel
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented. — Bobby Charlton
Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans. — R. H. Tawney
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply… — Tony Abbott
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities. — Sheryl Sandberg
People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do' — Paul Hersey
Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you. — Brian Tracy
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that… — Annie Besant
Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has… — Lynn Swann
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being. — Jeff Bezos

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