Ability Quotes

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.” – Chloe Traeger

Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

If you have your health and the ability to do what you love to do then I think we are all blessed and so keeping a light heart is really important.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

There's nothing like space and the ability to make unlimited amounts of noise at any time, especially in San Francisco.

If you stay intent and your ability warrants it, you will eventually reach the top of the mountain.

A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.

In all the characters I play, not matter how, it's like as if there is something within me that's released. I also show my best ability and put in my best efforts.

Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

I take pride in just knowing how to do things. Whenever a coach tells me to do something, I always try to do it the way he said or do it to my best ability.

Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

The ability to know one’s limitations, to recognize the bounds of one’s own comprehension—this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

You need to build an ability to just be yourself, and not be doing something.

What people get admired and appreciated for in community are their soft skills: their sense of humor and timing, their ability to listen, their courage and honesty, their capacity for empathy.

I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.

You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players

My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.

The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.

Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire.

Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.