Ability
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ALF: I wasn't known on Melmac as the whiz kid for my scholastic ability.
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.
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.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait — it's how we behave while we're waiting.
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.
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.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed — the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.
Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want — freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour — an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial — what I present to people outwardly — but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
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