Ability Quotes

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.