Ability
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Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait — it's how we behave while we're waiting.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom — how great is that?
Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
ALF: I wasn't known on Melmac as the whiz kid for my scholastic ability.
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