Ability Quotes

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.