Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

DIY skills are hot. The ability to put up a shelf and hang a picture is always good and being able to cook. Cooking's really hot.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Increased access to broadband expands our ability to do commerce and will help bring our farmers' operations into the 21st century.

The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

What I look for in a director is a strong point of view, a clear vision, and an ability to multitask and make decisions on the fly.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

Eric has pro athletes on both sides of his family - plus, I used to play sports - so I'm sure our son will develop athletic ability.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.

I was able to overcome my failures because I was always confident of my abilities and was sure I could achieve what I had set out for.

Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

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