"If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right."
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"E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being."
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"Wishes are premonitions of abilities."
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"The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings."
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"Not disabilities at all - more Abilities."
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"Worry destroys the ability to write."
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"The ability to adapt is everything!"
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"Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?"
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"The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time."
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"The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize."
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"I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life."
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"Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens."
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"Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less."
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"An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before."
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"It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?"
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"Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."
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"The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing."
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"There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults."
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"The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person."
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"Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for."
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