The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize without prejudice with the peoples of East Asia.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability is simply attracting the best-educated most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

No matter what his position or experience in life there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.

As with real reading the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness it's a strength.

Tactics fitness stroke ability adaptability experience and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

In spite of his practical ability some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

Human beings who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace equality and justice.

But reducing harmful emissions abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health they improve personal health enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability environmental responsibility ethics and compliance.