Ability Quotes

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

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.

Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.

He has that uncanny ability to be dangerous and pull the public in [on Michael Barrymore

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly

I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It's something the rest of us strive for.

The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other.

To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.