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I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.
Wladimir Klitschko
Yourself
Training
Discipline
Control
Side
Ability
Physical
About
Both
Schedule
Studies
Talent
Most
Learned
Boxers
Disciplined
Priorities
Were
Lacking
Psychological
Successful
Your
Needed
The phenomenon of creativity, we know, is closely related to the ability to yoke together separate, and even seemingly incompatible, matrices.
Wole Soyinka
Together
Creativity
Related
Ability
Seemingly
Know
Yoke
Closely
Separate
Even
Incompatible
Phenomenon
Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.
Wolfgang Ketterle
Me
Confidence
Sometimes
Parents
Chemistry
Experiment
Our
Bit
Must
Ability
Had
Allowed
Were
Friends
Done
Quite
Quite A Bit
Explosive
Basement
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Me
Focus
Important
Healthy
Enjoy
Ability
Follow
See
Vocation
General
Tension
Freedoms
Feels
Because
Exercise
Hand
Very
God-Given
Want
Which
Realities
Should
Use
Reason
Activist
Keep
Gratuitous
When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
Wynton Marsalis
Faith
Change
Lose
Our
Ability
Effect
Begin
Did
My father just believed in my mother's ability to do anything.
Yance Ford
Mother
Father
Ability
Just
Anything
Believed
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
Yance Ford
People
Black
Power
White
Way
Define
Ability
No-One
Over
Until
Exempt
Exert
Person
Get
Representation
Them
Poor
Agency
Themselves
Communities
Believed
Believes
Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.
Yotam Ottolenghi
You
Other
Recipes
Component
Ability
Like
Because
Does
Up
Textures
Yogurt
May
Regular
Noticed
Many
Now
Round
Presence
Sauce
As beavers build dams and bees build hives, human beings have spears. Or take the high intelligence of human beings, the ability to make plans, to transmit information - that was also there before, but that, together with the tools, was not enough to make man special.
Yuval Noah Harari
Man
Together
Intelligence
Build
Before
Dams
Enough
Tools
High
Ability
Take
Also
Make
Beaver
Bees
Human
Human Beings
Information
Transmit
Plans
Spears
Special
Beings
Humans have two kinds of abilities: physical and cognitive.
Yuval Noah Harari
Ability
Kinds
Physical
Cognitive
Humans
Two
The idea that humans will always have a unique ability beyond the reach of non-conscious algorithms is just wishful thinking.
Yuval Noah Harari
Will
Thinking
Ability
Idea
Wishful
Wishful Thinking
Reach
Beyond
Always
Just
Unique
Humans
I titled the book 'Homo Deus' because we really are becoming gods in the most literal sense possible. We are acquiring abilities that have always been thought to be divine abilities - in particular, the ability to create life. And we can do with that whatever we want.
Yuval Noah Harari
Life
Book
Thought
Whatever
Sense
Possible
Ability
Divine
Particular
Most
Because
Always
Becoming
Been
Gods
Want
Literal
Acquiring
Create
Really
Homo
When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
Yves Behar
People
Vision
First
Think
Our
Valley
Bay
Bay Area
Ability
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Area
Ideas
Around
Came
Mattered
Then
Worked
Create
Designers
Early
I was very fortunate to have several mentors in my life that believed in my ability on the football field. It was their support that made me believe that I could do it, too.
Zach Ertz
Life
Me
Made
My Life
Field
Believe
Too
Several
Ability
Could
Mentors
Football
Football Field
Support
Very
Fortunate
Believed
I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
Zach Johnson
God
Me
Game
Try
Seriously
Gave
Ability
Take
Feel
Like
Very
Just
Realize
Play
I have confidence in my game. I can get up and run the floor to the best of my ability, and above all, I'm going to play my hardest.
Zach LaVine
Best
Game
Confidence
Run
Ability
Above
Up
Get
Going
Floor
Play
Hardest
There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.
Zach LaVine
People
Try
Space
Run
Athletic
Ability
Open
Also
Well
Styles
Different
Then
Create
Shots
Use
Many
Different Styles
Floor
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
Zach Woods
Time
Free
Practice
Jazz
Desperately
Kid
Musician
Would
Ability
Free Time
Had
Hours
Messed
Messed Up
Got
Braces
Trumpet
Up
Wanted
Jazz Musician
Sudden
Play
With every album, I write above my ability, and my job as a guitarist is to catch up and be able to play it live. The thing about practicing is that once you master something, you don't have to remaster it. You just keep moving forward.
Zacky Vengeance
You
Moving Forward
Keep Moving Forward
Job
Guitarist
Master
Live
Keep Moving
Every
Once
Ability
Able
About
Above
Something
Write
Catch
Practicing
Up
Just
Moving
Forward
Keep
Play
Thing
Album
Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Political
Power
Aid
Consolidation
Would
Ability
Instability
Development
Vulnerability
Greatest
Reduce
America
Decline
Pakistan
We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
Ze Frank
Communicate
Other
Incredible
Ability
See
Mass
Mass Audience
Around
Audience
Want
Capable
Really
Each
Play
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
Zooey Deschanel
Me
You
Change
Strange
People
World
Own
Way
Drastically
Would
Ability
Something
Ideas
Make
Learned
Became
Because
Understand
Always
How
Led
Up
Different
Manipulate
Different Ideas
Then
Your
Appear
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
Aware
Why
Career
Our bodies are truly the result of what we eat, what we think about, and the exercise we receive. If we are not wise, these little things can soon cause major health problems that will limit our success and ability to serve.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Success
Health
Wise
Little Things
Result
Cause
Problems
Will
Think
Our
Ability
Eat
About
Soon
Major
Exercise
Limit
Health Problems
Truly
Little
Bodies
Serve
Things
Receive
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Care
Husband
Ability
Take
Develop
Take Care
Him
Himself
Alzheimer
His
Very
Heartbreaking
Disease
Loved
Decline
Much
Stand
Watch
We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.
Richard Dawkins
Communication
Communicate
Complicated
Language
Animals
Fall
Other
Systems
Ability
About
Talk
Same
Short
Ape
Far
Unique
Things
Present
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you to be shattered.
Martha Nussbaum
Good
You
Trust
Human Being
World
Own
Control
Kind
Ability
Uncertain
Lead
Beyond
Openness
Shattered
Human
Being
Your
Things
Good Human
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