I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players. ~By Michael Michele ~
All I had was natural ability. ~By Branch Rickey ~
Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. ~By Gian Carlo Menotti ~
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. ~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician. ~By Mo Udall ~
Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature. ~By Herbert Simon ~
The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty. ~By Will McDonough ~
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. ~By Bruce Jenner ~
Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours. ~By Paul Gillmor ~
From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States. ~By Mel Martinez ~
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. ~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women. ~By Stephen Lewis ~
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you. ~By Gabriel Byrne ~
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. ~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. ~By Joan Blades ~
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. ~By Bill Russell ~
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me. ~By Rowan Atkinson ~
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability. ~By Jim Clyburn ~
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. ~By John Abbott ~
The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. ~By Luc de Clapier ~
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. ~By Todd Solondz ~
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime. ~By Michael K. Simpson ~
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. ~By Gordon Brown ~
It was accountability that Nixon feared. ~By Bob Woodward ~
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents. ~By Peter Garrett ~
Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it. ~By Bill Toomey ~
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. ~By Henry Ford ~
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth. ~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. ~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. ~By Bruce Sterling ~
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains. ~By Jerry Costello ~
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. ~By Todd Gitlin ~
Aggressive and irresponsible steps endanger the peace and stability of the world, and the international community feels the need to protect itself from Iran. ~By Moshe Katsav ~
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown. ~By Mary Grandpre ~
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. ~By Sam Snead ~
It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility. ~By Estelle Morris ~
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. ~By Irwin Shaw ~
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service. ~By Sonny Perdue ~
I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down. ~By Natalie Gulbis ~
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. ~By Arthur C. Nielsen ~
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. ~By George Bernard Shaw ~
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being. ~By James Earl Jones ~
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. ~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Trust your ability! ~By Itzhak Perlman ~
I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from. ~By James Taylor ~
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability. ~By Solomon Burke ~
For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location. ~By Mortimer Zuckerman ~
It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt. ~By Chuck Norris ~
Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability. ~By Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ~
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat. ~By Bob Uecker ~
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. ~By Dalai Lama ~
Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs. ~By Jim Gerlach ~
Ability is sexless. ~By John Henry Newman ~
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions. ~By Kevin Kelly ~
The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability. ~By Jerry Falwell ~
Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems. ~By Gerry Adams ~
I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability. ~By Harry Caray ~
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. ~By David Bohm ~
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. ~By John Cazale ~
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. ~By Mary Baker Eddy ~
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it. ~By Chris Cannon ~
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. ~By Washington Irving ~
My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever. ~By Colin Mochrie ~
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. ~By Michael Polanyi ~
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. ~By Lance Armstrong ~
We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box. ~By Charles Rangel ~
Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues. ~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. ~By Andrew Greeley ~
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. ~By William J. Brennan, Jr. ~
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. ~By William Bligh ~
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. ~By A. E. Housman ~
I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability. ~By David Neeleman ~
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ~By Bo Bennett ~
Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something. ~By Bill Toomey ~
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. ~By Vernor Vinge ~
Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character. ~By Michael Zaslow ~
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. ~By Ingrid Newkirk ~
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. ~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. ~By Josh McDowell ~
Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets. ~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ~By Winston Churchill ~
But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil. ~By Condoleezza Rice ~
Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. ~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth. ~By Martin Feldstein ~
Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy. ~By Lucy Liu ~
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. ~By James A. Lovell ~
Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others. ~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty. ~By Peter Mandelson ~
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi. ~By Ron Kind ~
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ~By Vannevar Bush ~
We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability. ~By Warren Christopher ~
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. ~By Barbara Kingsolver ~
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. ~By Li Peng ~
We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy. ~By Patty Duke ~
Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy. ~By Michael Bergdahl ~
The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship. ~By Caroline Nichols Churchill ~
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged. ~By Roy H. Williams ~
Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear. ~By Bill Frist ~
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