Ability famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
-- Adam Lambert -
Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
-- Al Pacino -
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
-- Alan Greenspan -
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
-- Albert Einstein -
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.
-- Aldo Leopold -
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.
-- Alistair Begg -
The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.
-- Alyson Noel -
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
-- Amelia Earhart -
lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
-- Anchee Min -
The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
-- Andrew Taylor -
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
-- Andy Rooney -
We are all more capable than we think we are.
-- Anne Murray -
God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.
-- Anselm of Canterbury -
You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.
-- Anthony Edwards -
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
-- Anton Chekhov -
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
-- Anton Seidl -
The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.
-- Anton Yelchin -
It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
-- Aristotle -
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
-- Arthur Guiterman -
May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.
-- B. W. Powe -
At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.
-- Barack Obama -
We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
-- Barack Obama -
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
-- Barry Diller -
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
-- Barry Mann -
I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.
-- Bear Bryant -
In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
-- Beatrice Lillie -
I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
-- Benjamin E. Mays -
I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.
-- Bernard Beckett -
Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.
-- Bill Burr -
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
-- Bill Crawford -
Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
-- Bill Hybels -
When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.
-- Bill McCartney -
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.
-- Bill McKibben -
You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.
-- Bill Parcells -
Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.
-- Bill Toomey -
The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.
-- Billy Davies -
The ability to Self-Motivate is a cornerstone of true wealth.
-- Bob Proctor -
The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.
-- Bobby Bonilla -
Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.
-- Brad Warner -
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
-- Branch Rickey -
If you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.
-- Bree Despain -
When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.
-- Brian Tracy -
Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.
-- Brian Tracy -
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
-- Brian Tracy -
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
-- Brooke Astor -
The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.
-- Bruce Jenner -
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
-- Bruce Jenner -
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.
-- Bruce Tognazzini -
The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.
-- Bruno Bettelheim -
Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?
-- Candace Bushnell -
A great magazine is sort of a net for ability ...
-- Candace Wheeler -
My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.
-- Cardale Jones -
Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.
-- Cardinal Richelieu -
Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.
-- Carrie Vaughn -
Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
-- Cecil Taylor -
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.
-- Charles Garfield -
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
-- Charlie Sheen -
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.
-- Chris Asplen -
One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Understand that you have the ability to get healthy and stay healthy.
-- Christiane Northrup -
You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.
-- Christine Baranski -
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
-- Christopher Bram -
What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.
-- Christopher Reeve -
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
-- Chuck Close -
The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.
-- Chuck Grassley -
Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?
-- Clifford D. Simak -
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
-- Corin Nemec -
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams.
-- Corin Nemec -
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
-- Cornelius Vanderbilt -
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
If we must “feel†God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.
-- Craig S. Keener -
No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.
-- Criss Angel -
Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.
-- Dale Carnegie -
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.
-- Dan Brown -
Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.
-- Dan Miller -
He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
-- Daniel Craig -
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.
-- David A. Heenan -
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
-- David Allen -
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
-- David Attenborough -
The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.
-- David Levithan -
barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.
-- David Levithan -
I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.
-- David Neeleman -
When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.
-- David Richo -
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
-- David Rockefeller -
Faith is the ability to have trust in powers greater than yourself, to confidently stride into the unknown, and to believe in your own abilites-no matter what.
-- David Wolfe -
If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
-- Dean Koontz
