Ability Quotes

I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long time and continue to improve in this league and in sports in general.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.

I've never really been settled. I don't think I've ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it's given me the ability to detach from any situation.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

The truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it's a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something which is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.

Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment.

Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

Everyone is psychic to some degree, and really successful paranormal investigators even if they do not realize it are using their own psychic ability to sense the environment.

It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.