What I’ve learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.
The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.
Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves.
Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.
Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.
The issue here really is not whether international trade shall be free but whether or not it makes any sense for a country - or, for that matter, a region - to destroy its own capacity to produce its own food. How can a government, entrusted with the safety and health of its people, conscientiously barter away in the name of an economic idea that people's ability to feed itself? And if people lose their ability to feed themselves, how can they be said to be free?
A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.
Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.
I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.
The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?
With a sort of mental squint.
Faith gives me the ability to rise above anything, because what is true in the spiritual realm is forever true. It cannot be denied.
The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.
So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.