Ability Quotes

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams.

It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly.

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

I have no ability to develop muscle tone. I could do situps all day and still look like a condom full of walnuts.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

I find that the more I do the more ability the Almighty gives me.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips.

The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band.

You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the press doesn't have that much ability to frame people's decisions.

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be.

Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

You are not a prisoner of your thoughts. You have the ability to control what you are thinking.