#ability

I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself. ↗

— Ike Turner

#because #confidence #enjoy #fighting #get

Our family was starting. We kept on moving with our young lives, shortly afterward and took Ben Young with us everywhere. But pretty soon Pegi started noticing that Ben was not doing the things some other babies were doing. Pegi was wondering if something was wrong. She was young, and nothing had ever gone wrong in her life. People told us kids grow at different rates and do things at different times. But as Ben reached six months old, we found ourselves sitting in a doctor's office. He glanced at us and offhandedly said, "Of course. Ben has cerebral palsy." I was in shock. I walked around in a for for weeks. I couldn't fathom how I had fathered two children with a rare condition that was not supposed to be hereditary, with tow different mothers. I was so angry and confused inside, projecting scenarios in my mind where people said something bad about Ben or Zeke and I would just attack them, going wild. Luckily that never did happen, but there was a root of instability inside me for a while. Although it mellowed with time, I carried that feeling around for years. Eventually Pegi and I, wanting to have another child after Ben, went to se an expert of the subject. That was Pegi's idea. Always organized and methodical in her approach to problems, Pegi planned an approach to our dilemma with her very high intelligence. We both loved children but were a little gun-shy about having another, to say the least. After evaluating our situation and our children, the doctor told us that probably Zeke dis not actually have CP-he likely had suffered a stroke in utero. The symptoms are very similar. Pegi and I weighed this information. To know someone like her and to make a decision about a subject as important as this with her was a gift beyond anything I have ever experienced. It was her idea, and she had guided us to this point. We made a decision together to go forward and have another child. ↗

— Neil Young

#cerebral-palsy #disability #family #stroke #unexpected

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#balance

Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability. ↗

— Franklin Knight Lane

#any #class #men #more #newspaper

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#acquire #apply #better #continuously #develop

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? ↗

— Anna Freud

#around #basically #everything #everywhere #friendship

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#inability #neurosis #tolerate

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#defy #first #forces #least #natural

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#completely #government #missing #utterly

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever