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“To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.”
“But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to ...”
“If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what war is a long time ago. But those whose goal is war have never been held back, nor will be, by ex...”
“Human willingness to believe precedes their ability to think.”
“The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.”
“If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.”
“You can do things. Do you know this?Do you believe it?You should.It’s true.You can do great things.”
“He had no ability to give up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to quit, he couldn’t. It wasn’t in him. It never had been.”
“Never a horse that can’t be rode and never a rider that can’t be throwed. (I’ll pass this off as my own, but I really stole it from my father, a cowboy and rodeo rider in his younger years.)”
“Lack of sound mind and judgement – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God”
“Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is...”
“I think that writers are made, not born or created out of dreams of childhood trauma—that becoming a writer (or a painter, actor, director, dancer, and so on) is a direct result of conscious will. ...”
“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
“Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”
“Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.”
“Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.”
“Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.”
“So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned but give him a little metal a few chemicals some ...”
“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.”
