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quote: We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

quote: Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

quote: Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

quote: It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

quote: That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

quote: Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.

quote: More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

quote: Power is the ability to get things done.

quote: For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

quote: Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

quote: A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

quote: Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

quote: One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

quote: I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

quote: I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

quote: Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

quote: In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

quote: The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?

quote: Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

quote: I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

quote: The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

quote: Trust your ability!

quote: What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.

quote: The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.

quote: Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

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