Ability Quotes

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.

We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution.

All I had was natural ability.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.