Ability Quotes

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

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.

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

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.