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Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant · L. Ron Hubbard, Book: The Creation of Human Ability

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. – John Wooden
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. – Henry Steele Commager
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are. – Bryant McGill
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. – Ray Knight
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. – Unknown
Humans are the only creatures that have the ability to forgive. – Tom Zegan
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. – Alfred North Whitehead
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. – Flower A. Newhouse
Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully. – Bryant McGill
Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. – Dee W. Hock
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. – Abraham Lincoln
The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements. – Bryant McGill
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce. – Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
The pathway to building a legacy of fearless influence is not spanned by rainbow hue or prettily lined by daisies. On the contrary, it is shaped by our ability to grow less in our eyes in order to grow more in what we do. – Joseph Nyangon
The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses. – Bryce Courtenay
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. – Adolf Hitler
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. – Whitney Moore Young
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. – Robert Frost
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. – Charles Schwab
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve – Galileo Galilei
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. – Michael Korda
The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. – Henry Ford

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