She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability ...
The formal operational thinker has the ability to consider many different solutions to a problem before acting. This greatly increases efficiency, because the individual can avoid potentially unsuccessful attempts at solving a problem. The formal ope...
Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to be shared, letters to be mailed, jokes to be told, notes to be passed, recipes to be cooked, messages to be exchanged, m...
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution unt...
To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather, it is to act as one ought to act. And how one ought to act is not dependent upon anyone's power, even if the power be Divine.
As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.
Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Without an opportunity, their abilities would have been wasted, and without their abilities, the opportunity would have arisen in vain.
I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
