Ability Quotes

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

Our only security is our ability to change.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Ability is sexless.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I am not too serious about anything. I believe you have to enjoy yourself to get the most out of your ability. I can take the criticism with the accolades. Neither affects me.

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

There's a war on coal coming from this administration, and Congress seems to be going with it. Coal is West Virginia. It's the backbone of our budgets. To have this war on coal is destructive to our ability to maintain economic viability in the state.

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.