Ability Quotes

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Power is the ability to get things done.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

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.