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Brilliant, Ashleigh

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

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Dulles, John Foster

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

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Edwards, Bob

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

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Ford, Glenn

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower.

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Ford, Henry

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

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Frost, Robert

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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Fuller, Thomas

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

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Gibbon, Edward

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Grillparzer, Franz

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

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Guiterman, Arthur

The carpenter is not the best who makesmore chips than all the rest.

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Herbert, George

Skill and confidence are an unconquered ar

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Homer

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.

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Bacon, Francis

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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Johnson, Samuel

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must behighly gratifying to them.

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Kraus, Karl

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

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La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people.

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La Rochefoucauld, Fran?ois

There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one's ability.

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Marx, Karl

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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Newman, John Henry

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

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Peter, Laurence J.

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

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Bierce, Ambrose

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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Stengel, Casey

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

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Syrus, Publilius

No one knows what he can do until hetries.

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Unknown

Ability lies in the mind and the heart. To tell your mind to limit your abilities a

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Bonaparte, Napoleon

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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Bonaparte, Napoleon

Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.

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