Ability Quotes

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

Your ability to let go is part of the duty that you have.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

I understood somehow my mother's frustration. And that it was no good not only for her, but for her children or her husband, that she didn't have a real use of her ability.

I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

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.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

I like the idea of a proportional tax. That way you pay according to your ability.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.

Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to take care of yourself.

Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their humble part in shaping a world of spirituality and peace.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.