Ability Quotes

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

They are able who think they are able.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

His lie ability is an asset

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

At times anger will trigger harsh words. After a cooling the ability to speak from the heart with love and compassion.

American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

It was the joy of admiration and of one's own ability, growing together.

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

Influence is the ability to move a person to a desired action.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim.

We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

Evolutionary theory holds that our ability to sense when we should be suspicious has been every bit as essential for human survival as our capacity for trust and cooperation.

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

I might not have the ability to ever carry a child and I have this damn bag for the time being – but I'm alive.

I'm just a kid in a candy store right now, trying to have fun. I'm getting a chance to show my ability and my talent.

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.

A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.

Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.

Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.

I have an amazing ability to forget.

Your own imagination as to the true ability of the permaculture design system, you need to trust the system and stick to main frame basics with profound and thorough thinking while trusting yourself.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

My ability has always been to walk out on the stage and see the audience and figure out what they wanna hear.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability.

The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.