Ability Quotes

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.

A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

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.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.