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| Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ABILITY, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. | Alfred North Whitehead | 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher |
| Patience is the ABILITY to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. | Barbara Johnson | |
| Those people who develop the ABILITY to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ABILITY as writers. This is their main use. | Ezra Pound | 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic |
| Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ABILITY. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ABILITY to stick to one thing until it gets there. | Henry Wheeler Shaw | 1818-1885, American Humorist |
| I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities. | John Robinson | 1576-1625, American Clergyman |
| The sign of an intelligent people is their ABILITY to control emotions by the application of reason. | Marya Mannes | 1904-1990, American Writer |
| Your ABILITY to learn depends partly on your ABILITY to relinquish what you've held. | Milton Hall | |
| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ABILITY to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ABILITY to function. | Source Unknown | |
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| I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. | Agatha Christie | 1891-1976, British Mystery Writer |
| No amount of ABILITY is of the slightest avail without honour. | Andrew Carnegie | 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist |
| I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill] | Arthur James Balfour | 1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister |
| Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. | Booker T. Washington | 1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator |
| I never stay away from workouts. I work hard. I've tried to take care of my body. I'll never look back and say that I could have done more. I've paid the price in practice, but I know I get the most out of my ABILITY. | Carl Yastrzemski | 1939-, American Baseball Player |
| To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. | Charlotte Whitton | |
| ABILITY is sexless. | Christabel Pankhurst | |
| Others have done it before me. I can, too. | Corporal John Faunce | American soldier |
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| The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. | Desiderius Erasmus | c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist |
| There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. | Douglas Everett | American Hockey Player |
| The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker. | Earl Pitts | |
| The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. | Edward Gibbon | 1737-1794, British Historian |
| It is a fine thing to have ABILITY, but the ABILITY to discover ABILITY in others is the true test. | Elbert Hubbard | 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher |
| Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| To know how to hide one's ABILITY is great skill. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| The height of ABILITY consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. | Gail Hamilton | 1833-1896, American Writer, Humorist |
| Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ABILITY. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
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| People of mediocre ABILITY sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. | George E. Allen | 1832-1907, British Publisher, Author, Engraver |
| Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. | Grace Moore | |
| He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ABILITY of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! | Henry Ford | 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company |
| As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. | James A. Froude | 1818-1894, British Historian |
| I know I have the ABILITY to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. | Jennie Garth | 1972-, American Actress |
| Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
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| The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not. | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist |
| Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. | John Andrew Holmes | |
| Executive ABILITY is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. | John G. Pollard | |
| ABILITY hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. | John Henry Newman | 1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer |
| When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| ABILITY may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. | John Wooden | 1910-, American Basketball Coach |
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