Ability Quotes

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.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.