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Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Winston Churchill

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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Jim Rohn

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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.

Marlee Matlin

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If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

Robert Quillen

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When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Arnold H. Glasow

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The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data', has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

Rick Smolan

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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

Yehuda Berg

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Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Roy L. Smith

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I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

Jennifer Hyman

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Confucius

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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.

Yehuda Berg

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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

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Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight.

Khaled Hosseini

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We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.

Kenneth H. Cooper

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I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

Wade Boggs

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