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Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.

n truth, we don't know a whole lot of what Simeon North did. He did manage to match John Hall's ability to make interchangeable parts, but it's not clear how much of that came from Hall and how much was original with North.

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

Obviously, when you're in theater, you have to be in character. You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be able to react to things that don't necessarily happen every night, or aren't supposed to happen every night. And you have to react to it in character. In six months, 192 shows, those things did happen. And the experience of that, the ability to stay in character, I feel like I've learned a great deal.

Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.

Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.

Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.

One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

One of the rewards of success is freedom. the ability to do whatever you like.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.

One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die.

Only recently have we begun to understand the specific cognitive skills that contribute to business success and how to measure them. Hopefully, this insight will allow us to more keenly focus our attention on indentifying and cultivating decision-making abilities in the executive population.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

Opportunities will always be there but the level you'd be able to fulfil those opportunities depends on you being fully present and working to the best of your ability.

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

Our international role depends on a strong Europe and a strong Europe depends on France's ability to share leadership with others, including Germany. If France is economically weak and doesn't carry out reforms, it is no longer credible. Europe's position on the global stage is thus weakened. I would like to change all that. France needs a strong Germany and a strong chancellor. But Germany also needs a strong France.

Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.