Ability Quotes

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.

As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Our brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughts

I would say that my strength is my speed and my ability to win head balls.

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.

Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.

Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.

Personally, I don't tend to go into casting sessions. I try not to have a preconceived notion in my head because it just reduces my options or ability to find someone cool.

The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

There isn't a part of our lives that money doesn't touch - it affects our relationships, the way we go about our everyday activities, our ability to make dreams reality, everything.

I look around and there are needs that people have. Places have needs. These times have needs, and I have the education and the ability to communicate with it and help to solve those needs.

The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.

I have an ability that I've already honed in on to get better.

How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

Once learned, the ability to disagree with a smile pays valuable dividends for a lifetime.

The main thing is, too many players feel like they're complete players when they're not, so rather than acknowledge their limitations and play within their ability, they overreach.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.

If we lose the ability in question for a single moment only, we are immediately being hijacked by an aggressive little "Think me!" and our mind begins to wander.

Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

I can play a power game, but I also have the ability to step it up to another level and hit shots even further on call.

Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.

The ability to meditate successfully is a very unique skill that will help you better weather the storms of life.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability.

When you get to the big leagues, you need to take potential and turn it into performance. You want to be the guy who got the most out of his ability, not the guy who never fulfilled his potential.

The key to successfully working with each other is that they respect each other and their abilities.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.

Shopping online is fantastic for comparison shopping, because never before have you had the ability to see all the prices offered from everybody at one time.

Anthony came in and played well. We know that both of our quarterback have the ability to play well so we just have some things we need to improve on as the weeks go on.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.