Ability

(68 votes)   People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(67 votes)   He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(65 votes)   Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Grace Moore

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(64 votes)   Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.

Swami Vivekananda
Indian Spiritual leader - Founder of the Ramakrishna Order of Monks 1863-1902

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(63 votes)   A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.

Thomas Somerville

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(62 votes)   Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(61 votes)   Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(61 votes)   There are two kinds of totally unacceptable employees -- those who can't do what they're told and those who can't do anything else.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(59 votes)   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.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(58 votes)   Your integrity is more precious than your life.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(57 votes)   Loneliness cannot be shared.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(57 votes)   Management: First fix the blame. Then fix the problem.

Dale Adams
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(57 votes)   Someday will never come and take you by the hand.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(55 votes)   Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

Dale Adams
80 year old man

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(55 votes)   The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains

Ken Carey

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