Ability Quotes

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.

The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism.

People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.

Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

I'm extremely proud of the ability to really go forth and minister.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

Music has always had the ability to comfort and inspire.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

A city's greatness is manifest in a people confident in their ability to take risks, to encounter

Your ability to survive depends on your attitude

What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.

When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.

I've never doubted my ability.

I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and has enhanced my ability to do the same with my own life.

Some were paid solely for their ability to dream up the unthinkable.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

I have no faith in my ability to judge things.

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or additional troops, to do their part.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

Ability without honor has no value.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use it excessively.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

If you simply cannot make the right decision, make a decision and then make it right.

Your integrity is more precious than your life.

Without a goal, you cannot survive.

Loneliness cannot be shared.

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.