Ability Quotes

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.

Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can’t function around a man if I know his ability to give pleasure.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.

With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

A critical key to achieving success lies in your ability to activate your potential to create the results you seek... start by being aware of your self-sabotaging patterns.

I think the artist has an ability to draw pictures for people to where they can process these messages that otherwise they wouldn't be open to hearing.

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.

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.

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

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

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

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.