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Ability Quotes
"The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world."
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"So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime."
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"One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself."
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"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."
"This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing."
"Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty."
"Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything."
"I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives."
"I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground."
"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
"Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention."
"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
"The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know."
"I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening."
"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."
"I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare."
"The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances."
"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
"I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage."
"Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone."
"That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you."
"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."
"There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines."
"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."
"I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture."
"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."
"You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up."
"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."
"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."
"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."
"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."
"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."
"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
"NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage."
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