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Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is oft but perseverance in disguise.

Content: Quotation | Author: Orison Swett Marden | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Personal Development

In the affairs of life or of business, it is not intellect that tells so much as character — not brains so much as heart — not genius so much as self-control, patience, and discipline, regulated by judgment.

Author: Samuel Smiles | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Content: Quotation | Author: Steven D. Levitt | Subjects: Ability, Competence, Expertise, Management, Personal Development

Preference with a passion—intense commitment to what they do—is one of the single most dramatic differences between peak performers and their less productive colleagues […] many told me they can trace their performance more clearly to preference than to aptitude, more to how they feel about what they are doing than what they know.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Attitude, Personal Development, Success / Failure

The only way to do the right thing well is to do it poorly first.

Content: Quotation | Author: Thomas J. DeLong | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Ability, Experience, Skills

Knowledge is a higher order of awareness that tells you why. Know-how is a higher order of knowledge that tells you how.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Ability, Competence, Knowledge

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Ability, Personal Development, Thought

A capability is the ability to reliably and consistently deliver a specified outcome relevant to your business. This capability is ensured through a combination of processes, tools, knowledge, skills, and organization that are all focused on meeting the desired result.

Content: Quotation | Authors: Eduardo Alvarez, Srini Raghavan | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Ability

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Content: Quotation | Author: Albert Einstein | Subject: Ability

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Content: Quotation | Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Subject: Ability

Ability is a poor man’s wealth.

Content: Quotation | Author: John Wooden | Subject: Ability

Talent only matures when harnessed within a personality that is capable of self-improvement. And talent, ironically, has a nasty knack of protecting the talented from the urge to self-improve.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ed Smith | Source: Ode | Subjects: Ability, Achievement, Success / Failure

Genius is a talent for producing that for which no definite rule can be given, and not an aptitude in the way of cleverness for what can be learned according to some rule.

Content: Quotation | Author: Immanuel Kant | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Ability, Human Resources, Personal Development

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine…it’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.

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Content: Quotation | Source: Zaadz | Subjects: Ability, Achievement

The principal obstruction to what we want most is ourselves. Our tendency, when we stand where we are and look toward what we want, is to see all kinds of obstructions imposed from without. When we change our point of view and look backward at where we are from where we want to be, in many cases the obstructions disappear.

Content: Quotation | Source: Rotman Magazine | Subjects: Ability, Perception

In terms of managing human capital to drive the bottom line, most companies operate on two false assumptions. One is that people can be anything they want to be if they try hard enough. The second is that each person’s greatest room for growth is in his or her areas of greatest weakness.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Ability, Human Resources

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Content: Quotation | Source: Various | Subjects: Ability, Challenge

Most of us have potentialities that have never been developed simply because the circumstances of our lives never called them forth.

Content: Quotation | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Ability, Personal Development

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Content: Quotation | Source: 800-CEO-READ (8CR) | Subjects: Ability, Potential

Possibility is only a word about bringing forth out of nothingness something we desire to become present, but possibility may be the most powerful word in our language because it enables us to visualize and strive for a future that is not available to us in the present. Possibility is like a time warp, allowing one to escape from the limits our past into an … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Ability, Future