ability

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Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

- Lemieux, Mario

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

- Lippmann, Walter

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Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

- Ceran, C. W.

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I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

- Malle, Louis

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

- Rohn, Jim

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We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

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There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

- Ross Perot

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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

- Tom Lehrer

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There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

- Edison, Thomas A.

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The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

- Hunt, Roy L.

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Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

- Robert Reich

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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

- Bayley, Stephen

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We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer.

- Gerald Weinberg

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The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that.

- David Nicholls

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The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

- H.P. Lovecraft

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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

- Brackell, Fogg

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Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.

- Brown, Les

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However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.

- Eric Hoffer

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Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.

- Mccarthy, Michael J.

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor