Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.
I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.
The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.
During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U. S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
Liberals despise the rule of law because it interferes with their ability to rule by mob. They love to portray themselves as the weak taking on the powerful. But it is the least powerful who suffer the most once the rule of law is gone.
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.
Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
If you touch me, I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how bad ass you really are. "
The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.
The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U. S. interests really are.
All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.
God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.
You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.
Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.