Ability Quotes

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.

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

Ability without honor is useless.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.