That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

quote by J.M. Coetzee
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Increased Visibility

Congratulations,
On achieving your new position.
And the increased visibility.
Now all that is left for you to do,
Is to produce the ability...
With capabilities you have yet,
Shown to others are all your own.
Good luck.
I am sure your abilities,
Will soon open many eyes.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

quote by Denzel Washington
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I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.

quote by Benazir Bhutto
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

quote by Robert Half
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When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

quote by Don Nickles
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Many of us are more capable than some of us but none of us is as capable as all of us!

Tom Wilson in Ziggy
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

classic quote by Descartes
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Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!

quote by Tom Wilson
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

quote by Rachel Weisz
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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

quote by Gerard Depardieu
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The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

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

quote by Neal A. Maxwell
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What Makes Us Human

I believe ability makes us intelligent, it distinguishes us from animals
I believe all have the ability to learn, to create art, to love
I believe we can let our ability go to waste, or we can let it flourish
I believe our ability that makes us human is our intelligence and good judgement
I believe many choose to ignore this ability and rely on animalistic instinct
I believe some humans treat animals better than humans
I believe to make this world peaceful we need to let our abilities flourish

It is curious that many people advocate humane treatment for animals, but treat actual humans inhumanely

poem by Lenore Lee
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We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills.

quote by Mercer Reynolds
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I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market.

quote by Jim Cramer
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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

quote by Elbert Hubbard
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You have the right to feel, you are successful

Success, sweet success
Success, it is waiting for you
To own and hold on to it

Success of any kind
Has easy access
If you are after it restlessly

Success is not indeed the end
It is the beginning of a
New chain of successes

Simple it is to be successful
So simple, you wonder how many of us are not at it

It all depends on what you feel
Success means to you
You may school your thoughts
And train your emotions
To feel successful on everything

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poem by Bashyam Narayanan
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

quote by Horace
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

quote by John Ruskin
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