"A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete."
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"I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other."
"If you have the ability to do something, you should do it."
"Ability is noting without opportunity."
"Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life."
"The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus."
"It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over."
"We are not all able to do all things."
"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."
"Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation."
"Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes."
"It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him."
"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."
"Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition."
"I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual."
"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite."
"The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules."
"Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off."
"Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware."
"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."