#ability

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#ability #first-rate #function #hold #ideas

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#effect #genius #into #mind #put

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#attention #convert #converts #desire #economic

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep. ↗

— Megan Fox

#acting #acting ability #anytime #as far as #done

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#access #because #digital #director #disk

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#attitude #chose #circumstances #freedoms #given

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#disability #does #me #symbolizes #way

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#economic #freedom #general #general public #go

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #dues #long #manner #means

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#advance #am #artist #believe #big