Ability Quotes

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.

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

It is the American way to reward ability.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.

A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Ability is sexless.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.