Ability Quotes

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

Please do not lose the ability to dream

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

I fantasize about LeBron's ability. He is the best player I have ever seen at this age.

I think everyone has the ability to be loved.

I wish someone had told me that my stories are really mine to tell. In other words, anything that I think is important or that has moved me has the ability to move somebody else.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.

My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.

I think I've always had the abilities, but the object has been to perform as well as I can.

Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.

I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

There is a difference between CAN'T and WON'T. 'Can't' can be the result of lacking physical ability, but 'won't' has more to do with attitude.

When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.

I never stopped believing in my ability or what I was doing. I want to pass that sense of faith and perseverance on to others.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

When your image improves, your performance improves.

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being