Ability Quotes

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions ofpeople and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannotconnect with them in my normal, everyday life.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

You have an amazing ability to depress me sometimes, you know that?" "I try my best.

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Potentially, the U.S. military has the ability to stop messages from being delivered or can alter commands without ISIS knowing.

Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

We need heart. We need a lot of things. But you have to have some basic ability. And sadly, she [Hillary Clinton] doesn't have that.

Hillary Clinton has got no business ability.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, hopefully, have a stronger impact.

W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire his ability to be simple without being simplistic.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

I think that Paul Gasol is the most skilled big man in the NBA today with his ability to post on either block, the way he runs the floor, and the way he can shoot the mid-range jump shot.

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.

The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.

The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.

We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

Philosophers of biology generally recognize that evolutionary fitness (roughly, an organism's ability to survive and reproduce in its environment) is multiply realizable.