Ability Quotes

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

The roles for women have been either you're the mother or you're the whore or the lieutenant. They've been sort of limited, either way you're all good or you're all bad. What I'm loving about 'Red Widow' is the ability to really do move toward the Tony Soprano or Walter White or 'Dexter,' these character who are just complex, flawed.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.