Dakota Fanning

I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

American Actress

Ava DuVernay

I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.

American Director

Oprah Winfrey

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

American Entertainer

Sonia Sotomayor

I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

American Judge

Future

I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

American Musician

Langston Hughes

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

American Poet

Joe Biden

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

American President

Virgil

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Roman Poet

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

German Writer

Viola Davis

It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.

Expresses that conditions must be met to do something.

Opportunity Required

Being able to do something doesn't guarantee success.

Not Always Success

Highlights potential rather than a completed action.

Potential Action

Indicates a good performance or high intelligence.

Positive Assessment

Suggests skill or intelligence above a certain norm.

Implicit Comparison

Can raise expectations of someone’s performance.

Sets Expectations

Indicates having enough time and resources for an action.

Time and Resources

Includes more than skill, such as availability or circumstance.

Not Just Skill

Sometimes it's about being emotionally prepared, not just skill-wise.

Emotionally Prepared

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How sugar affects the...

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What makes muscles grow?...

 These curves help us stay upright and absorb some of the stress from activities like walking and jumping. If they are aligned properly, when you're standing up, you should be able to draw a straight line from a point just in front of your shoulders, to behind your hip,

The benefits of good...

 We have advances in biology that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen and be able to make drugs and vaccines that fit for that pathogen. So we can have tools, but those tools need to be put into an overall global health system.

Bill Gates: The next...

 Knowing that your own brain is lying to you while not being able to resist its commands can be agonizing. But with knowledge and understanding comes the power to seek help, and future research into the brain may finally provide the answers we're looking for.

Debunking the myths of...

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A message from the next...

 and putting your cell phone on airplane mode. In one study, researchers observed 260 students studying. On average, those students were able to stay on task for only six minutes at a time.

How to practice...

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Able

Having the power, skill, means, or opportunity to do something.

Often appears as...

Having considerable skill, proficiency, or intelligence.

Often appears as...

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Having the necessary physical strength, mental power, skill, time, money, or opportunity to do something.

Often appears as...

Opportunity Required

Not Always Success

Potential Action

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