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Ability Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- (I'm not putting any of this well. I am not and never have been an intellectual. I am not articulate, and the subjects that I…
- I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.
- Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in…
- If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
- The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly…
More Ability Quotes
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible… — M H Abrams
- Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
- As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions… — Julian Assange
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of… — Joe Baca