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Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success. -- Joe Baca
Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability. -- Gloria Allred
Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector. -- Kerry Stokes
We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity. -- Kathy Mattea
The best part of touring is the opportunity to make the music. You get to do what you love and have the ability to go out on stage every night and create. -- Matisyahu
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. -- Samuel Goldwyn
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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity. -- Orison Swett Marden
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren. -- Tim Walz
Dell's a company that has changed the IT landscape in making PCs and servers more affordable. There's enormous opportunities to make IT more accessible to tens of millions of companies, kind of democratizing the ability for companies to gain access to IT. -- Michael Dell
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. -- Gordon Brown
High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity. -- Andrew Lo
Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. -- Sammy Sosa
It's so easy to get whisked away in the hubbub of friends, work and busy-ness, but we need to take the time to be still and become aware of ourselves. The small things. The fact that we're still breathing. Our ability to move. The presence of love around and in us. Our strengths. Our opportunities. Our journeys. -- Grace Gealey
We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race. -- Donna Brazile
Ability is noting without opportunity -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is nothing without opportunity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is of little account without opportunity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is of little account without opportunity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity. -- Abraham Zaleznik
There is far more opportunity than there is ability. -- Thomas A. Edison
Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself. -- Brian Tracy
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat -- Steve Jobs
It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity. -- Nelson Mandela
Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement. -- Stephen Covey
Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure. -- Bryant McGill
Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity. -- Chris Vonada
The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life. -- Andrew Taylor
The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life. -- Andrew Taylor
A man's potential for God lies not in his ability, nor in his opportunity, but in his humility before God. -- Jim Berg
It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change "¦ agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat. -- Jim Highsmith
Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow. -- Buck Rodgers
We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation. -- Thomas A. Edison
Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary. -- Tony Robbins
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent. -- Nolan Ryan
God made me blind and unable to walk. BIG DEAL! He gave me the ability... the musical gifts I have... the great opportunity to meet new people. -- Patrick Henry Hughes
Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it. -- Billy Graham
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. -- Charles M. Schulz
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

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