I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. —Bette Davis More about this quote Tags: acting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. —Tom Lehrer More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity. —Thomas H. Huxley More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits. —Robert Half More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. —Paul Graham More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. —Paul Graham More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test. —Francois de La Rochefoucauld More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. —Cicero More about this quote Tags: virtue education glory ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. —Baltasar Gracián More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The less their ability, the more their conceit. —Ahad Ha'am More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: ability Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Delay is preferable to error. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: actions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email