"Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do."
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"My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day."
"Friends enhance our ability to think and act."
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
"Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want."
"Women systematically underestimate their own abilities."
"Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships."
"Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability."
"Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves."
"At least my happiness doesn't depend on Ron's goalkeeping ability."
"When your image improves, your performance improves."
"I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot."
"There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light."
"Power is the ability to achieve purpose."
"Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy."
"You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone."
"Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from."
"I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it."
"Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have."
"What is important is that we have the ability to create."