- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ability Quotes
What you're capable of keeps shifting.
Several of these compare confidence across different skills — trusting one ability more than another — and describe the mental effort a serious theory demands. For more on staying capable under pressure, see our Great quotes.
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- Empty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.
- Elders
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.
- Big Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to have influence and create change and drive the strategy of an organization is really what excites me.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of many strengths that I often see in successful women on Wall Street is a responsible balance between risk taking and risk mitigation - the ability to assess situations smartly and make the right medium-to-long-term decisions without being lured into reckless, short-term profit-taking.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you can develop your ability to be clutch, if that's the word that you will use, your ability to focus and to be able to block out all the external stuff.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's some guys - Michael Jordan and Mariano Rivera and Tiger Woods - that were blessed with the ability just to be... great.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think any of us are above the ability to change football from what it is.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something I remind myself every day, just do your job to the best of your ability and that's the most important thing.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.
- Complex
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020