Ability Quote by Russell L. Ackoff

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer…

— Anonymous

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

— Gary Zukav

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

— Calvin Coolidge

Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and free done without subjection to sense and…

— Sri Aurobindo

Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

— Masha Gessen

Attain the unattainable.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“In this temporal existence, perfection is an illusion, regardless of those who believe in its concept. Perfection is devoid of any value. Perfection, after…

— Lionel Suggs

I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are…

— Morris F. Cohen

“Obstinacy is an impediment to the free exercise of thought. It paralyses the intelligence. Conclusions based upon preconceived ideas are valueless.”

— Patricia Wentworth

We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix,…

— Longchenpa

“The undiscovered is not far away. It’s not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us.…

— h.e. davey