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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. (Douglas Adams)
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study. (Sir Francis Bacon)
ability, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. (Ambrose Bierce)
Ability is of little account without opportunity. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it. (Eileen Caddy)
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Thomas Carlyle)
Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd. (Rene Char)
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Cicero)
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. (Confucius)
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. (Thomas Edison)
To overanalyze the source of aptitudes greatly diminishes the mystery and beauty of all our abilities. (Michael Fantuz)
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end. (Leon-Michel Gambretta)
We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair. (Malcolm Gladwell)
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. (Baltasar Gracian)
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. (Robert Half)
In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to. (Beatrice Lillie)
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected. (Charles de Lint)
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art. (Audre Lorde)
The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting. (Ovid)
Creativity concerns what we do with our abilities. Any normal person can be creative in terms of whatever abilities he or she has or can acquire. (D. N. Perkins)
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people before any other ability under the sun. (John D. Rockefeller)
When I get comfortable, or uncomfortable, with my abilities, it pays to see a real artist at work, and there is none better than Mother Nature. (Kevin Sprague)
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he. (Stendhal)
If art was defined simply by the ability to draw, then my inkjet printer would be a greater artist than Michelangelo. (Curtis Verdun)
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