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That's part of what I worried about last season, that maybe the guys outside me didn't trust in my ability and then I started to doubt my own ability.


Julian Huxley

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SADDAM HUSSEIN I remembered the times I'd second-guessed myself or questioned my own ability. The times when a ...
MARILLYN HEWSON I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, a...
CARL YASTRZEMSKI The best part about Maui is that I can spend a lot of time outside. My off-season is April, May, and...
JULIA MANCUSO I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to...
ABBY WAMBACH For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, s...
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PAUL PIERCE I am very comfortable fighting southpaw, ... both my right and left hands are powerful. My ability t...
ANDRE WARD I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race...
EDWARD BROOKE Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last ye...
PAYNE STEWART We showed signs in the beginning of the game, but then we panicked at times. We didnt execute things...
ALEX HERNANDEZ I'm not going to try to replace him, ... I've got to come out and play ball, that's all. I feel good...
MIKE PATTERSON But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
SIDNEY POITIER When I started writing music on the guitar, it started off very folky because of my limited ability ...
KIESZA I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
CAITLYN JENNER I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
BRUCE JENNER My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.
S.A. TAWKS I believe in my ability and my mental toughness.
STEFON DIGGS I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
JULIE ANDREWS I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind,
LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD I want to go out and show my ability and what I can do.
PLAXICO BURRESS I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of abi...
CONFUCIUS You picked a man who can read tax code and date a celibate for two years. That's some serious patien...
JOSHILYN JACKSON You need to develop the ability to just be yourself and not be doing something, that's what the phon...
LOUIS C. K. you let my trust die ..thats all i need it to finish you over go in peace .
MELANIE ROJAS When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have noth...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all tha...
JARED GOFF Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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WALTON GOGGINS If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
DEAN KOONTZ It was all big-name guys, and I wasn't in there getting killed or demolished or anything like that. ...
DORELL WRIGHT I have done my best to represent my constituents to the best of my ability. I want to represent what...
DAVE MITCHELL Will I live yearning for a world that I need not yearn for because the message of Christmas is entir...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Maybe he went through what you're about to go through. You may not be on the greatest team in the wo...
LEN DAWSON I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me wha...
DAVID H. MURDOCK I was scared. I thought I was going to get pinned when he had that fireman's in. But I got out of th...
JOSH KRATOVIL I'm going to go back there and do what I've been doing; it's not an ability thing, it's a business t...
JASON BERGMANN My teammates have surrounded me with such a good presence that they've really given me the opportuni...
BRITTANY WILKINS I dedicate this semester to Brittany. The moment when it started to hit me was when I sat in my car,...
ERIC WISE My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's...
JASON BABIN I would have assumed that if he had doubts about my leadership ability he would have taken the oppor...
AARON MOKOENA I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside ...
DIDO ARMSTRONG It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
JOHN FRUSCIANTE My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first b...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE No, but I feel it. I'm not worried about the looks. I'm worried about the sensation of my brain bein...
JOAQUIN PHOENIX I choose not to place "DIS", in my ability.
ROBERT M. HENSEL I didn't play to my ability,
CHAD HENNE A lot of people were complaining about his coaching ability in the last half of the season, so, it's...
LARRY KELLY I'll try to prepare for the future of Ellis County and the future of my grandchildren. One of my str...
BILL DODSON I liked our ability to shoot the ball and a number of guys did that.
DOUG FOLEY These guys are incredibly gifted in their own right, ... but over the last few years, we've grown in...
BONNIE RAITT I cannot be worried about what the fans do, ... I just have to be worried about my game, just play m...
MARIAN HOSSA It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr...
KARL MARLANTES I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I co...
AVRIL LAVIGNE Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY They've got so much athletic ability. They can go outside and pressure the ball. Not too many teams ...
NORM ROBERTS Baseball is in my heart. I know after the storm, the last thing parents were thinking about was buyi...
RYAN THOMPSON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm ...
BRYAN VOLPENHEIN The economics of the industry are good. But my ability to predict what happens in negotiations over ...
DONALD FEHR I feel I gained a lot of momentum for next season. My season started kind of slowly, but I'm really ...
EMILY HUGHES In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.
BRETT SOMERS My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that ...
NANCY PEARCEY If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices...
EDDIE VEDDER I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of t...
HOWARD DEAN My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I...
DEVIN DYGERT The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT As a goalie your main job is to stop the puck. I view it as an exciting challenge every game and I t...
ALEC RICHARDS It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love... -Anshika.
ANSHIKA JAIN They told us, ‘You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber...
CHARLES MCGEE They told us, ‘You don't have the capacity, you lack the technical ability and the moral fiber' .....
CHARLES MCGEE When I started fundraising like me and leading like me, that's when I really started to shine an...
PAYAL KADAKIA Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea...
DIANA GABALDON I have the ability, no matter what's going on in my life, to find something - my cup is always h...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I am quite confident in my ability. I'm sure I would have run real fast. I never doubt myself, so it...
ASAFA POWELL I love to show off my ability in a nice way.
YANI TSENG I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I...
TAMRA DAVIS The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I...
HARLAN ELLISON Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my...
SAMANTHA STOSUR raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
ARTHUR ANDERSEN I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appe...
TOM BROKAW ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
JACK KEROUAC That was me. I messed up, ... My main job is to keep guys off him. That's what I'm planning to do fo...
JAMES REED But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian ...
BRET EASTON ELLIS I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go...
JASON PRIESTLEY My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and the...
CHERYL HUGHES I came to love, I came into my own.
THEODORE ROETHKE The offense is more fun for me than just running. The option attack is just about running the ball, ...
CORY ROSS I was very comfortable taking a second role to him. There is no doubt about his ability to step up i...
KEELAN AMELIANOVICH I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to ...
BETTY CUTHBERT I am sure of my ability to form a good government.
ISAAC HERZOG What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. I...
HELENA BONHAM CARTER Robert Herring had enough trust in me to think I could carry my own show.
TOMI LAHREN I had no idea that all the things in my career were going to happen. I sure didn't see it. I jus...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a...
THOMAS HUXLEY Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one met...
THOMAS HUXLEY Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
THOMAS HUXLEY The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
THOMAS HUXLEY If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
THOMAS HUXLEY There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need...
THOMAS HUXLEY Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly...
THOMAS HUXLEY I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is r...
THOMAS HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS HUXLEY The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
THOMAS HUXLEY The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
THOMAS HUXLEY The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
THOMAS HUXLEY Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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