Ability Quotes

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

Be mindful of everything going on around you and always be on point but don't be so on point that you lose that ability to be what it was that got you out there.

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.

When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.

When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.

Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.

My suspicion is that his hard-core supporters, you know, when I interviewed some of them, they almost take kind of vicarious pride in Donald Trump's ability to maneuver.

I mean [Donald Trump] ability to be so shameless, I think that it's impossible for most people to parse.

Over the years I've become more confident in people's ability to recognize a good thing.

All I had was natural ability.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

Feminism means that we all seek to live fulfilled lives, whatever that means for each of us, and we should have the equal ability to do that. Nothing should limit us simply because we're women.

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things.

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense

Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.

For some reason I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.

The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability!

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.

I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.