I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it,
me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Agatha Christie
1891-1976, British Mystery Writer
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''
Oswald Chambers
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author
Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and
virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to
glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from
reason and imagination, rarely.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a
racehorse on a treadmill.
Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental
energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison
1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones
never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
