Ability Quotes

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.

The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

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

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.