Ability Quotes

Jazz has the ability to absorb & transform influences from diverse musical styles.

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had

Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of.

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.

The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.

I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

Just listen to what Mr. [Donald] Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

In the matter of dress one should always keep below one's ability.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.

It takes a lot more than ability to run fast; it takes the ability to keep coming back and coming back.

I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.

I realized from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

I dont believe in disabilities, I believe in ability.

To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.

The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess.

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.

The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

The ability to Self-Motivate is a cornerstone of true wealth.