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Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.
Ability gets you so far, but having bottle and staying strong when you're getting pounded, staying in a game, that's a mental quality.
I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
Phil Rudd from AC/DC was someone I really liked a lot... Not because I was dazzled by his playing ability - he was just a rock, y'know?
There are unlimited numbers of angels, beyond the human ability to count. Every time God has a thought of love, a new angel is created.
It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.
What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?
My biggest problem when I was younger was trying to balance my ability with what the team needed me to do to officially run the offense.
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.
The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.
I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.
The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.
I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.
If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.
The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
There are two ways that lack of sleep affects my play: I'll play too many hands and I'll lose the ability to effectively read my opponents.
When my reading ability is sharp, I can dodge bullets, baby! I have no problem folding super-strong hands and that saves me a ton of chips.
Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.
Every character that I've chosen has made me evolve as an actor. And I am lucky that my directors have shown so much faith in my abilities.
Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.
The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
We have to improve our ability to deliver tangible results, namely sales, not simply awareness or change of attitude among opinion formers.
The employee relationships are important, investment in our people is important, and the ability to do work at multiple sites is important.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.
I wish football, as a culture, bred more than just a football player. It has the ability to be an incubator and transition players properly.
I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out.
And if we truly want a strong and secure middle class, we must restore the ability of labor unions to organize and represent working people.
The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.
Wireless is freedom. It's about being unleashed from the telephone cord and having the ability to be virtually anywhere when you want to be.
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.
I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.