Ability Quotes

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.

I don't define myself by my body's ability to execute gorgeous asana anymore. I'm all about taking care of my temple and understanding that its requirements change with age and time.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential difference in your team's ability to problem-solve.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

Gaily, if you can't demonstrate the ability to keep her alive, then I will take over her care and get you a dog instead." - Newt

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take

Ralph Angel was such a great character. The single-father image has been portrayed in so many ways so having the ability to be a part of that narrative excites me!

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.

The end and goal of any society as it addresses the problem of education is to raise the ability, the initiative and the cultural level, and with all these the survival level of that society.

The handling of a problem seems to be simply the increase of ability to confront the problem and when the problem can be totally confronted it no longer exists.

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

The nature of competition is such that any number of people invariably have their eyes on the same prize you do. Recognize your assets and employ them to the best of your ability.

Let's not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked. "Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked. Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

However, the mind has an amazing ability to continue worrying away at a problem all on its own, so that when the "Eureka!" comes it is as mysterious as if it were God speaking.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

I'm confident with my ability.

I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

The body can limit our ability to experience life to the fullest, especially if we identify ourselves as being only our bodies.

I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

I have tremendous confidence in the ability of government institutions and the American people to do what is right to make sure that our democracy stays on the right track.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

With a sort of mental squint.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.