Ability Quotes

And I'm hoping that fair-minded people will stand up and say that what's been done to me is wrong, and that-that people's personal lives have no impact on their ability to be a journalist, you know. Why should my past prevent me from having a future?

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

The roles for women have been either you're the mother or you're the whore or the lieutenant. They've been sort of limited, either way you're all good or you're all bad. What I'm loving about 'Red Widow' is the ability to really do move toward the Tony Soprano or Walter White or 'Dexter,' these character who are just complex, flawed.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.