Ability Quotes

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.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. If you think too much, you start doubting yourself, doubting your quality, so you have to train yourself in a certain way.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.