Ability Quotes

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

The roles for women have been either you're the mother or you're the whore or the lieutenant. They've been sort of limited, either way you're all good or you're all bad. What I'm loving about 'Red Widow' is the ability to really do move toward the Tony Soprano or Walter White or 'Dexter,' these character who are just complex, flawed.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.