Ability Quotes

Trump is not haphazard. Trump has the ability to improvise at a rally or go off the prompter at some point.

Ted Cruz is tailored his message for a specific conservative evangelical. I think it's limited his appeal. I think he has the ability to appeal to everybody.

If I had the ability to influence people all over the world just by speaking or writing, one of my objectives would be find out how America became special and then tell everybody.

The left have not the ability to get into reality in any way, shape, manner, or form.

I think that people see that Sandra Bullock has an ability to laugh at herself and you just don't find that too often.

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.

Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.

Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.

What I do believe is theatre is a medium with a peculiar ability to air vital issues.

I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability to figure out people's rhythms. It all starts from the script.

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.

Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

[James Bond's qualities of] self-containment, his powers of decision, his ability to carry on through till the end and to survive ... I like to think I acquired them before Bond.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.

Experience is primarily the ability to restrain our fleeting impulses.

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.

Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

Be confident in yourself, in your abilities, and in your goals. Then go for it.

My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.

What I like to believe, and what I do firmly hold to, is that in us all we do have the ability to remain honorable, no matter what has been done to us. No matter what horrors we've witnessed.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

Good psych should take you to a different place, be a bit disorientating and have the ability to make you wonder and perhaps make you feel the need to sit down.

One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it.

Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.

The only thing that keeps us going back to one another is that we're all filled with such enormous self-doubt. We have doubts about our ability to be alone, to self-actualize.

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.

Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head.

Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.

Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.

One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism