Ability Quotes

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory. The living, thank heaven, retain the ability to surprise and to disappoint. - Van Houten

I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Part of my role at T-Mobile is the ability to just be myself, because I'm 58 years old and I've done very well, and I don't need to fight my way up the hierarchy with my suit and hair anymore.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.

Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.

No one knows my ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical.

Cultivate the ability to make decisions and think alone. Do not be afraid of failure, but learn from it.

Being your best when your best is needed. The ability to enjoy challenges when things become difficult and to derive exhilaration from them.

Isn't that what you really want in a jean? The ability to kick people in the face in them? I don't wanna have to go home and change into shorts.

The best way to describe my ability was to say that after the game the other kids would say to me, 'Way to try!'

The American people, or at least the ones that I get on the subway with - they know there's a real threat out there. They felt like Iraq lessened our ability to fight that threat.

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability

Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

The greatest gift that we have as human beings is our ability to empathize. That's why I think personal stories matter so much. That's someone's mom. That's someone's daughter. That's someone's son.

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.

Do not enter into a learned discussion with your guests unless you are assured of their ability, so as not to put them to shame.

Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.

If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players.

I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.