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~ Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives. ~ ~ I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. ~ ~ What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability ~ ~ A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin ~ ~ A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers gives him. ~ ~ In silence lies the ability to listen; to listen to ourselves, to others and to God. Listening is a lost art. Without it we cannot communicate, we cannot relate to each other and so we cannot live life meaningfully. We need to learn to listen. Sitting in silence allows us to listen to ourselves and to understand. This silence can heal. The worries, the pain can be healed when we listen. Spiritual medicine is ever-present in the soul. Whenever we need it, to whatever extent we need it, we can find it within. ~ ~ Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption ~ ~ Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months. ~ ~ Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ~ ~ I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability. ~ ~ Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. ~ ~ Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. ~ ~ Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won. ~ ~ Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five ~ ~ I didn't know there were so many gay people out there. Everywhere, they turn up. More importantly, I think I'm amazed how people everywhere have had the sensitivity to want to get into the complexity of the issue, the probability of love, the illusion of love, all those things. It's not simple things you can categorize as right or wrong. ~ ~ Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenges and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what does not work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity. ~ ~ What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge ~ ~ Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability ~ ~ The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission. ~ ~ The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. ~ ~ The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~ ~ The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence. ~ ~ From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. ~ ~ A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~ ~ The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~ ~ The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. ~ ~ The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ~ ~ Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ~ ~ He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude ~ ~ One mark of a great educator is the ability to lead students out to new places where even the educator has never been ~ |
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