Ability Quotes

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.

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 .

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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".

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.

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

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

I would vote against anything that grants amnesty because I think it destroys your ability to enforce the existing law

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.

It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.

New media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you.

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

I am as willing to serve now as in the beginning in any capacity and at any post where I can do good. The lower the position, the more suitable to my ability and the more agreeable to my feelings.