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Ability Quotes
"Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn."
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"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
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"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
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"The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence."
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"I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it."
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"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
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"I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability."
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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."
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"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."
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"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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"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."
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
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"The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing."
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"I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability."
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"The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements."
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"I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary."
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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."
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"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."
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"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."
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"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."
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"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."
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"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."
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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."
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"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."
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"My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever."
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"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."
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"The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users."
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"There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability."
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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."
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"My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly."
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"If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?"
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"The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of."
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"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
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"The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate."
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"If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience."
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"We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that."
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