Ability Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.

We are all more capable than we think we are.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical ability - ie, projecting your voice and stage craft.

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

I listen to The Beatles, we both [with Abilities] listen to everything.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.

Donald Trump has this ability to reach out and touch the beast inside so many people.

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

In reality, many choices are between things that are not that much different. The value of choice depends on our ability to perceive differences between the options.

Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.

As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.