Ability quotes:
Alan Price about Music:
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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
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Alex Pareene about Government:
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In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.
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Ambrose Bierce about High:
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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Baltasar Gracian about Great:
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Barry Diller about Right:
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Bernard Baruch about Important:
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
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Bill Flores about Texas:
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The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.
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Bill Janklow about Bank:
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What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.
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Bill Toomey about Goal:
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Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.
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Bobby Bonilla about Great:
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The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.
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Bruce Sterling about Ignorance:
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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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Caitlyn Jenner about Greatest:
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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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Carol Loomis about World:
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When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
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Charles Buxton about Success:
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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
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Chris Gibson about Defeat:
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When mainstream Muslims defeat the Islamic State, that lessens the ability of the Islamic State to recruit and fund-raise.
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Clayton Christensen about Gift:
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The ability to share the Gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.
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Clayton M. Christensen about Gift:
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The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.
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Craig Bruce about Ability:
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From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability.
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Craig Venter about Reading:
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We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
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Daniel Craig about You:
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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David Rose about Rich:
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There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf about Blessings:
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The blessings of the priesthood transcend our ability to comprehend.
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Dominique Wilkins about Losing:
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Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.
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Earl Nightingale about Work:
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
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Edsger Dijkstra about Quality:
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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Edward Klein about Skill:
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Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.
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Elbert Hubbard about Something:
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Eleanor Catton about Meaning:
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The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.
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Elena Vesnina about Power:
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The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.
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Emile Galle about Rock:
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Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?
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Emma Donoghue about Should:
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Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
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Eric Hoffer about Nature:
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Eric Schmidt about Change:
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Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
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Ernest Hemingway about Imagination:
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Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
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Evelyn Waugh about Friends:
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
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Frank Gaffney about American:
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The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.
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Gene Roddenberry about Strength:
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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
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Ginni Rometty about You:
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The ability to please your shareholders comes because of what you do for clients.
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Glenn Tipton about I Can:
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My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo about Economy:
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Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.
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Golda Meir about Short:
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec about Everyone:
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Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate.
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Henry Ward Beecher about Success:
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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Herbert Hoover about Respect:
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Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
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Herbie Hancock about Wisdom:
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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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Heywood Broun about Love:
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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
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Jack Keane about Will:
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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James Taylor about Love:
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I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.
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Jamie Johnson about Live:
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Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
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Jane Velez-Mitchell about Beyond:
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We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.
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Jennifer Beals about Way:
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By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.
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Jerrod Carmichael about Ego:
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To say it very honestly, removed from ego, standup is just a thing that I understood, a God-given ability.
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Joseph Haydn about Knowledge:
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I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
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Kara Swisher about Will:
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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Katharine McPhee about Hands:
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I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.
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Kenny Hickey about Writing:
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I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.
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Lee H. Hamilton about Events:
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Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.
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Louise Jameson about Handle:
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I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.
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Marc Garneau about Signs:
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NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.
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Marianne Williamson about Key:
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Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.
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Mark Sheppard about Realize:
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It seems to realize itself to be some of the most exciting TV and films that are made. Sci-fi just has that ability.
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Marlee Matlin about Crazy:
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It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.
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Martin Feldstein about Competitive:
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After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.
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Martin Parr about Ability:
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I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.
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Martin Parr about Laugh:
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The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
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Melissa McBride about Fight:
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The ability to fight isn't a one-size fits all, everybody is different.
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Michael A. Stackpole about Dreams:
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Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.
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Michael Greger about Vegetables:
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Sadly, commercially-produced, frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane because the vegetables are flash-cooked before they are frozen.
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Michael Porter about Change:
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The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
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Michelle Yeoh about Ability:
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I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that.
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Nathan Deal about Grow:
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Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.
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Neil LaBute about Ability:
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Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
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Nick Cannon about Play:
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I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.
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Nicola Sturgeon about Support:
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Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
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Orison Swett Marden about You:
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Patricia Cornwell about Find:
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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Patty Duke about Crazy:
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We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.
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Peter Landesman about Great:
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Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.
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Raghuram Rajan about Bank:
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist, its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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Ray Knight about Think:
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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
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Rebecca Traister about Women:
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Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.
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Rita Mae Brown about Writing:
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
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Rob Reiner about Desire:
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We made the joke when we screened 'Bucket List' that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it.
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Robert Half about Something:
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Roxane Gay about Connected:
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We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connected. We never have to miss anything, significant or insignificant.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg about Anger:
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Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.
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Samuel Johnson about Ability:
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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Samuel West about Believe:
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What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.
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Satya Nadella about Job:
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A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.
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Sebastian Thrun about Progress:
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We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.
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Sidney Poitier about My Own:
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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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Thomas Jane about Dad:
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My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.
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Twinkle Khanna about Want:
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Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.
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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran about World:
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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Vladimir Putin about Partner:
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The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
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Whitney M. Young about Create:
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
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William Hurt about Beauty:
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The achievement is appreciation. Your ability to be surprised and awed by beauty!
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Yvonne De Carlo about Comedy:
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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