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Quotes About Ability

Money is nothing more than a reflection of your creativity, your capacity to focus, and your ability to add value and receive back.
~ Anthony Robbins
But—and it's a huge but—you also have the ability to "borrow" from your policy. In other words, you can call the insurance company and access your cash value, but it's legally deemed and actually is a loan—and loans are not taxable.
~ Anthony Robbins
Or maybe in school you didn't learn as quickly as you thought other kids did, and rather than considering the idea that you had a different learning strategy, you may have decided that you were "learning-disabled.
~ Anthony Robbins
En otras palabras, su comportamiento no es el resultado de su habilidad, sino del estado en que se encuentre en ese momento. Para cambiar su habilidad, cambie su estado. Para abrir la multitud de recursos de que dispone, sitúese en un estado lleno de recursos y en una expectativa activa, ¡y observe cómo se producen los milagros!
~ Anthony Robbins
Some men have a great gift of making money, but they can't spend it. Others can't put two shillings together, but they have a great talent for all sorts of outlay. I begin to think that my genius is wholly in the latter line.
~ Anthony Trollope
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
~ Aristotle
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
~ Aristotle
Fourth, it would make no sense for an inability to defend oneself by physical means to be a source of shame, while an inability to defend oneself by verbal means was not, since the use of words is more specifically human than the use of the body.
~ Aristotle
But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme....
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Orang berkemampuan rata-rata tidak tahu apa-apa yang lebih tinggi daripada dirinya. Tapi, orang berbakat selalu bisa menyadari suatu kegeniusan.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You seem to have powers that are hardly human
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There is no doubt that it is comic if someone can 'waggle his ears', and it would certainly be still more comic if he could move his nose up and down.
~ Sigmund Freud
She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull
~ Sinclair Lewis
Even when she was tired her dark eyes were observant. She did not yet know the immense ability of the world to be casually cruel and proudly dull
~ Sinclair Lewis
I wondered if [people] weren't psychic because they didn't have the ability, or because they didn't want to have it. [...] Later I'd come to understand how negative behavior and thought patterns block people from their psychic sense.
~ Sonia Choquette
All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there
~ Zig Ziglar
My ability is greater than my disability.
~ Nikki Rowe
The fact that you can do something doesn't me you are called to do it
~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
Feel the ecstasy of giving. Not many have got the ability to enjoy and embrace the beauty and satisfaction of giving. Because people are too busy in earning and owning. You know...!
~ Lukhman Pambra
If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer lies in the profound inertia of human thought: when an entire society believes something is impossible, it suppresses, by its very way of life, the evidence that would contradict that belief.
~ John Mighton
So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.
~ John Quincy Adams
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
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
~ John Stuart Mill