Ability Quotes

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

The ability of people to reach their own news sources now, and create different views, is really unbelievable, and [populism] may be part of this.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

Understand that you have the ability to get healthy and stay healthy.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

Tough times test your valor, persistence and ability to make decisions. They force you to fight for your dreams.

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

All I have is natural ability.

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

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 tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

One of the greatest hinderances of abiding in God is the lack of ability to say NO to people and opportunities

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.

Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.

Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.