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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway.
-Edward Abbey
Confessions of a Barbarian
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Just do what you do best.
-Red Auerbach
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
-Francis Bacon
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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill
-Arthur Balfour
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
-Lucille Ball
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.
-Colette Bowe
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
-Thomas Carlyle
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
-Andrew Carnegie
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, I can't.
-Oswald Chambers
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
-Agatha Christie
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Ability without honor is useless.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
attributed, no source
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
-Douglas Everett
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
-William Faulkner
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.
-Corporal John Faunce
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A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
-William Feather
The Treasure of Franchard
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Books about Ability
