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Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.

Tim Murphy

Ability

America

Oil

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

Rupert Murdoch

Ability

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

Martin Mull

Ability

Trouble

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Roger Moore

Ability

Modesty

Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

Colin Mochrie

Ability

Accomplishment

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

Henry Miller