"Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well."
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"The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists."
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"It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn."
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"Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect."
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"The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media."
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"America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise."
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"[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike."
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"Faith is your reaction to God's ability."
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"Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind."
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"The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more."
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"When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability."
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"Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability."
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"One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die."
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"Our liberality should not exceed our ability."
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"Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare."
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"I'm confident with my ability."
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"Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me."
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"Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent."
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"It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability."
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"Nature distributes her favors unequally."
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