Ability Quotes

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

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.

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