Ability Quotes

God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.

Creativity is the ability to see and to respond.

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

Ability is noting without opportunity.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely.

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to synthesize ideas.

Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life.

Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

The only way round is through.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.