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Sagt av |
| Där skicklighet krävs får kraften vila. | Herodotos (484 f.Kr.-425 f.Kr.) |
| Jag sluter mina ögon för att kunna se. | Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) |
| The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| Instinct is untaught ability | Alexander Bain |
| Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit | Aristippus |
| The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness. | David Plowright (1930-) |
| A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything. | Donald Kircher |
| The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline. | George J. Seidel |
| Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it. | Hank Aaron (1934-) |
| The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. | Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) |
| Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture | John Abbott (1821-) |
| Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul | John Randolph (1915-2004) |
| I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. | Sir Edward Appleton |
| The difference between one man and another is not mere ability - it is energy | Thomas Arnold (1795-) |
| If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it? | Wilt Chamberlain (1936-) |
| Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. | Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. (1859-1930) |
| The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. | Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965) |
| Ability is sexless. | John Henry Newman (1801-1890) |
| Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability. | John Wooden (1910-) |
| There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. | Robert Half |
| You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. | Zig Ziglar |
| Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. | André Malraux (1901-1976) |
| We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Ability is nothing without opportunity. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything. | Donald Kircher |
| The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. | Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| I shut my eyes in order to see. | Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) |
| You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. | Zig Ziglar |
| Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. | Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956) |
| To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. | George Allen (1922-1990) |
| Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability. | John Wooden (1910-) |
| Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. | Thor-Heyerdahl (1914-2002) |
| Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be. | Jack Brymer (1915-) |
| Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. | Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) |
| Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary. | Anthony Robbins (1960-) |
| Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. | Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658) |
| I think all students start off with incredible ability and curiosity, and if they're given the opportunity to pursue that, if they're given a chance to see the neat things about the world in terms that they can appreciate and enjoy, that their abilities will be reinforced and that we'll really achieve so much more potential out of the great students we have than we do today. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. | Bruce Jenner (1949-) |
| There never was a bad man that had ability for good service. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Try your skill in gilt first, then in gold | English Proverb |
| Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| 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. | John Ruskin (1819-1900) |
| From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need | Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883) |
| The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. | Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) |
| With a sort of mental squint. | Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) |
| Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. | Lou Holtz (1937-) |
| Ability without honor is useless. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Ability is nothing without opportunity. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Ability is of little account without opportunity. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| 'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered. | Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
| The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. | Tom Lehrer (1928-) |
| Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. | Vauvenargues, Marquis de (1715-1747) |