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Ability Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
- Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie…
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew…
- When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying…
- A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
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- If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way… — Oprah Winfrey
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson