Ability Quotes

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.