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41 " Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new ideas. Once it is programmed with a basic self-interest and an ability to communicate with others, its own logic will impel it, in the fullness of time, to respect the interests of ever-increasing numbers of others. It is reason too that can always take note of the shortcomings of previous exercises of reasoning, and update and improve itself in response. And if you detect a flaw in this argument, it is reason that allows you to point it out and defend an alternative. "
― Steven Pinker , The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
42 " Music enables an ability of divine expression transcending any words. "
― Temi Peters , Instruments of Praise & Acts of Worship
43 " The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it. "
― Cassandra Clare , Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader
44 " Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich. "
― Amit Kalantri
45 " Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow. "
― Debasish Mridha
46 " In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another factor of contemporary life must be considered: the role of the work routine and the pleasure routine. Man becomes a 'nine to fiver', he is part of the labour force, or the bureaucratic force of clerks and managers. He has little initiative, his tasks are prescribed by the organisation of the work; there is even little difference between those high up on the ladder and those on the bottom. They all perform tasks prescribed by the whole structure of the organisation, at a prescribed speed, and in a prescribed manner. Even the feelings are prescribed: cheerfulness, tolerance, reliability, ambition, and an ability to get along with everybody without friction. Fun is routinised in similar, although not quite as drastic ways. Books are selected by the book clubs, movies by the film and theatre owners and the advertising slogans paid for by them; the rest is also uniform: the Sunday ride in the car, the television session, the card game, the social parties. From birth to death, from Monday to Monday, from morning to evening - all activities are routinised, and prefabricated. How should a man caught up in this net of routine not forget that he is a man, a unique individual, one who is given only this one chance of living, with hopes and disappointments, with sorrow and fear, with the longing for love and the dread of the nothing and separateness? "
― Erich Fromm , The Art of Loving
47 " Emotionally intelligent people have an ability to manage stress as it happens and remain calm through chaos. "
― Susan C. Young , The Art of Preparation: 8 Ways to Plan with Purpose & Intention for Positive Impact (The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #2)
48 " The public's dilemma is to know how to consume the news with an ability to extract opinion from the simple facts and evidence... The best solution to the fact/opinion dilemma is to acquire more diverse information across the ideological and geological divide. If you find yourself relying on one source of information for the news, whether right or left, you are likely to be exposed to more opinion that reinforces rather than challenges your own. "
― Nancy Snow , Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech and Opinion Control Since 9-11
49 " It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another "
― Guy Gavriel Kay , River of Stars (Under Heaven, #2)
50 " Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say " I will," or " I will not," and mean it? "
51 " Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship. "
― Tahir Shah , Travels With Myself
52 " A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships. "
53 " It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint and he understands ours then we can sit down and work out our differences. "
54 " A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman. "
55 " Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. "
― Václav Havel
56 " On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. "
57 " Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. "
58 " I've always enjoyed teen characters, and kids as well. For whatever reason, I seem to have an ability to do it sort of well, and I enjoy doing it. "
59 " In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. "
60 " Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. "