Quotes of: Acting-ability Keyword

The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

Viet D. Dinh

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

Victor Hugo

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Marsha Blackburn

Where there were once several competing approaches to medicine, there is now only one that matters to most hospitals, insurers, and the vast majority of the public. One that has been shaped to a great degree by the successful development of potent cu...

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots. Let me explain what I mean by this. If God eliminated evil by prog...

Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

Did you really think you could quit?" He moved closer, his steps slow, purposeful. "Just fax me a damned piece of paper and I‘d be forced to let you walk away from me?" "You don‘t have a choice." Lydia swallowed the lump in her throat and moved a...

Body Rush

To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.

Hebrew

The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.

The Flinch

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.

Chris Ware

No matter our age, circumstances, or abilities, each one of us can create something remarkable of his life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

Bill Gates

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Jim Hodges

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Mike Birbiglia

The limit of a person's will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person's ability to believe.

Awareness and Being

Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

Hunted

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Killosophy

Human has the ability to believe in something wrong as if it is true.

Master of Stupidity

You have the ability to choose your reactions.

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Mockingjay

What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?

The Passion

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

Cornelius Vanderbilt