Ability Quotes

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us so superior.

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

Life is full of chances -- and those times when we each trust our own guts and have a terrific outcome reaffirms our ability to make good decisions.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

You cannot live this life anymore without the ability to read.

The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.

Your ability to be a winner 100 percent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.

Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself.

Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate... and now I know what and who I want to be... a soldier for peace.

What one cannot, another can.

Success in business hinges mostly on the ability to get the important things done.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.

I love to show off my ability in a nice way.

Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.

Sometimes you just gotta use what God gave you to the best of your abilities.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

I get to represent a lot of different types of women because of my ability to transform into these different people.

Faith is your reaction to God's ability.

One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability.

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.