Ability Quotes

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent.

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

I love the idea of playing a character that didn't over think everything. He knows what's in front of him and he has an ability to just say whatever he felt.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.