Ability Quotes

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.

Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

I have an ability that I've already honed in on to get better.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

I have to say that one of the most important things Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together. I understand how people can get into unethical situations, and Scientology has always helped me keep my head clear and be in present time.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate your own emotions.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

I would not reconsider the nuclear cuts. The appropriations committee did due process in looking at where there was the ability to cut some spending and that's what we did and now it's time to look forward to fiscal year '12.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.