Ability Quotes

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.

Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

The dangerous assumption we unknowingly accept in the American dream is that our greatest asset is our own ability.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

All I have is natural ability.

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

That ability to press immediately, within five or six seconds to get the ball, is important

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my team-mates.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold.