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«Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.»
Author: Andre Malraux
(Historian, Novelist, Statesman)
| About:
Ability,
Action,
Courage,
Failure,
Ideas,
Risk-taking,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, act, bet, betting, bet on, calculated, calculating, difference, ideas, I Bet You, more often than not, risk, successful, you bet
«Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.»
Author: Don Drysdale
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Ability,
Attitude
| Keywords:
abilities, back up, beards, intimidating, tough guy
«Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul»
«Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| About:
Failure,
Success
| Keywords:
abilities, bet, bet on, calculated, calculating
«Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Self-knowledge,
Trouble,
World
| Keywords:
abilities, all the way, almost all, frailties, ninety, percent, Strangers, virtues, woe
«The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.»
Author: Anton Chekhov
| About:
University
| Keywords:
abilities, incapability, including, the University, university
«The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
abilities, destruction, Graves, Human resources, In America, natural ability, natural resource, natural resources, resources, utilize, utilized, utilizing
«People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
abilities, adequate, adequate to, Eccentricities, eccentricity, fall into, People of, sphere, uncommon
«Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cultivation, make up, natural, natural ability
«The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.»
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