Quotes about ability
ability both committee conduct
Both the Committee and Mr. Goldin have the ability and wherewithal to conduct an appropriate investigation.
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For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future. Alison Gopnik
ability change learn nature
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct. Alison Gopnik
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We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt. Alison Gopnik
ability art dying feet stay
Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art. Peter Storey
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Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations. Peter Blair Henry
ability concerns consider future highway investment options private protect specific super
The governor's concerns were never specific to Super Slab. The governor's concern was to protect future governors' and future legislatures' ability to consider options such as private investment in our highway system.
ability concerned excellent qualified recruit retain
The governor's been concerned about the ability to recruit and retain competent, qualified and excellent commissioners.
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The Governor felt it was very important to assure that future governors and future legislatures would have the ability to consider options such as private investment in our highway system. The language proposed for this year's bill protects that option while also protecting property owners.
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The governor depends on the university being an economic engine for the state. Having a private research institute will enhance our ability to more quickly transfer discoveries to the marketplace for the benefit of the university, the state and humankind.
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The government is not doing things to keep them alive. It is really conducting tactics to deprive them of the ability to be on hunger strike because the hunger strike is an embarrassment to them.
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In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?
ability appear demand perform work
Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.
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We'll put different guys on him, but you're not going to shut him down. You try to contain him. He has the ability to make difficult shots. You can do a great job on him and he'll still knock down a shot." () Robert McCullum
ability hard terrific
We have the (swimmers) and the ability. If we have a terrific meet, we should be hard to beat.
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We have the potential ability to grow fourfold by looking at the number of employees in a corporation versus the number of users that are professional users of SAP. Shai Agassi
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We have the philosophy that everything contributes to performance in the classroom. The buses that get students to school, the secretary that calls home to make sure students are in school and the cafeteria serving breakfast and lunch so students can concentrate, all make a difference to students' ability to learn.
ability capital execute fields manpower question
We have the know-how, the capital and the manpower to execute these projects, ... It's all a question of timing. We know which fields and reservoirs, and we have the ability and willingness to do it.
ability experience late
We have the experience and ability to come on late in the season. We have the ability to do well then.
ability exercise time
We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. Pat Robertson
ability
We have the ability to take him out, Pat Robertson
ability chance context details hear online people present
We have the ability to not only present the context and details of a story like this in text, but also give people the chance to see it, hear it and feel it. That's what makes online so compelling.
ability amount demand increased meet next several
We have the ability to meet a considerable amount of increased demand over the next several months, and even years.
ability armed attract people retain states united
We have the ability to go out and attract and retain the people we're going to need in the United States armed forces, Donald Rumsfeld
ability anticipate holding playing
We have the ability to get by without him, but he's going to want to play. That's how he is. I don't anticipate anything holding him back from playing, and playing a lot of minutes. Flip Saunders
ability believe continue goes single special year
We have the ability to do special stuff, and we have to continue to be more consistent, and that's team-wide. It's not one single person or one single area. We do believe that we'll get better and better as the year goes on. Ned Yost
ability animals care folks home
We have the ability to care for animals here in a way that some folks at home may not.
ability bit good hard lucky stay
We have the ability to be good. We have to stay healthy, get a little bit lucky and just play hard to make good things happen.
ability good halfway handle last matter pressure realize year
We have the ability to be as good as last year by the end of the season. It's a matter of how they handle the pressure of varsity. They have the ability; they realize if they want to be halfway decent, they have to work.
ability attain ended leaves season sour taste
We have the ability to attain our goal. We have ended every season with a loss, and that leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
ability individual offering sums
We have the ability of offering substantial sums for an individual who is this dangerous.
ability egg fashion game immaturity lack laying lose stick
To lose to Stanford, and in the fashion that we did, by laying an egg in the first half, showed some immaturity with our lack of ability to stick with the game plan.