Ability Quotes

Is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of people and then walk off with the money?

I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.

You have the ability to give so much to the world by emitting feelings of love and well-being, despite what is happening around you.

Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again.

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.

Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. Thank you for the unconditional love and cyber hugs. You inspire me.

By giving every child a fair start, we are improving our collective future, including the private sector's ability to find talent in a very competitive global marketplace.

If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.

I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

What is important is that we have the ability to create.

To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

With America's role in the world, we have the ability to help protect the freedom of religion around the globe.

The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

The ability to communicate is not something we are born with. We have to learn it and earn it.

The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure.

I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

My strength is in my ability to be versatile.

The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.

If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

All abilities come from one mind

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst.

You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

The key to success is often the ability to adapt