Ability Quotes
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.
It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.
For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!
Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.
You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.
We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.
Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.
It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.
Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
I believe modeling is a combination of natural talent, the ability to adapt to different situations, hard work, and, most importantly, luck.
It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.
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.
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.
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
We're really trying to give people the ability to go into a darkened room and have a couple hours of just pure enjoyment.
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
To me, success is one's ability to keep the faith, develop his God-given talents, and be able to honestly say at the close of life, "the world is a better place because I have lived."
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.
Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.
I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.
The one thing I've learned to do that I never thought I had the ability to do is I don't watch CNN anymore.
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.
If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.
The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.
Ponder the depth and the power of loyalty-the ability to serve and support a cause greater than yourself.
If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Man ultimately decides for himself! And in the end, education must be education towards the ability to decide