Ability Quotes

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

I have stood up and I have represented my constituents to the best of my abilities, and I'm very proud of that.

Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]

Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.

Hollywood has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.

Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.

This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

Katie commented that Americans had lost the ability to enjoy themselves. "We watch television," Dave said.

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

We [with my wife] felt like we had the ability to help people not just on a local basis, but on a national basis.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances.

We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

Revenge is a really narrow scope through which to view things. In the same way secrets do, it has this ability to warp everything. But secrets are more inward, and revenge is outward.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts something into action.

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

The ability to last more than six minutes - isn't that what all men want?

I don't have the ability to do a nine-to-five nor do I have the desire to. Stand-up is the only thing that's come completely naturally to me.

I hope I can now use my ability to communicate, without being too precious or serious. It's good to have some levity, even as you're facing some really dark times, to mix it up a bit.

Your larger goals are less clear. You understand the outcome that you would like to achieve. Yet, the path to travel is not as clear and you have doubts as to your ability to accomplish these goals.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.