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«If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
curiosity, expected, natural ability, surprise, tools, very much
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.»
«I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.»
Author: Branch Rickey
| Keywords:
natural ability
«All I had was natural ability.»
Author: Branch Rickey
| Keywords:
natural ability
«Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability
| Keywords:
abilities, natural, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, study
«Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.»
«ABILITY, n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. Perhaps, however, this impressive quality is rightly appraised; it is no easy task to be solemn.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appraise, appraising, impressive, natural ability, solemnities
«Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Ability,
Plants
| Keywords:
abilities, at large, bounded, directions, give forth, natural ability, plants, prune, pruned, prunes, pruning, studies
«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
«I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
natural ability, oftener
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