Why is it that some of you are so high above the curve in terms of your intellectual ability, athletic ability, musical ability, creativity, energy levels, your resiliency in the face of challenge, your sense of humor?

And at the heart of our challenges At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.

75 percent of job successes are predicted by your optimism levels, your social support and your ability to see stress as a challenge instead of as a threat.

When faced with the next Ebola like challenge, our ability to meet it will depend on the strength of local institutions and our ability to develop the right tools with which to fight it. There is no telling how many lives may depend on the steps we take now.

An important challenge is to ensure that multilateral trade rules do not constrain the ability of countries to achieve their regulatory objectives, i.e. to separate what is legitimate regulation from protectionist abuse (needless discrimination).

The challenge for development efforts is to find methods that allow individuals and communities to solve their own problems the ability of a community to take on more complex social issues is a key indicator of progress.

That's where the ability to engineer microbes, the ability to engineer tissues, and the ability to engineer robots begin to lead to a reboot.

Skill number one is the ability to recognize success and the ability to recognize failure.

This first challenge is what I refer to as the persuasion challenge.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

We need to reframe the challenge that is facing Africa, from a challenge of despair, which is called poverty reduction, to a challenge of hope.

Some people have a better musical ability and ability to appreciate music than others have.

The persistence, their ability to deal with ambiguity, their ability to tackle problems that they haven't seen before.

The average man fails not because he lacks ability, but because he lacks ability to concentrate.

So our first challenge was to find these things, and that was a challenge, indeed.

It improves our ability to learn.

There's one challenge symbolized at the top, but there's another challenge to science symbolized at the bottom.

Now the other issue comes with, not just the ability to tell pitches apart, but the ability to tell sounds apart.

That's because our ability to confront the problems that we face has not kept pace with our ability to create them.

It's a challenge to our ingenuity.

I want to challenge you today.

An Answer to the Russian Challenge

The second challenge relates to security.

The IMF s perceived democratic deficit is a serious challenge to the Fund s political legitimacy and to its ability to effectively stabilize crisis situations. But let s recognize that real democracy is only going to come when middle income developing countries are prepared to back up their lofty rhetoric with hard cash.

And everyone has the ability to contribute.

Weak ability to manage the educational system.

The democratic challenge today is, above all, a social and human challenge.

I'm going to let you challenge authority.

Here's my challenge to the Defense Department.

The challenge remains to make it work.

He said that the ability of women of African descent to make their own decisions led to choices and the ability to influence public decisions.

The challenge

And ultimately, the challenge of the baker, the challenge of every culinary student, of every chef, is to deliver flavor.

Maybe it's his ability to have causal thought.

We have the ability to change our future.

Maybe their greater ability to cooperate and adapt?

Karlo has the ability to understand and create.

The ability to correct wrongdoing can never justify doing wrong in the first place. The point of exposure is not to celebrate our ability to expose.

That is a tremendous challenge, but we all realize what is at stake, and we are determined to meet the challenge.

I'm actually here to make a challenge to people.

And it's focusing on skill after skill, or ability after ability, under specific attentional control.

So, I'm going to challenge all of you.

I challenge you to try. It's very hard.

We have not always risen to the challenge.

The second challenge is to halt climate change.