Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

All human beings have the ability to transform like a caterpillar emerging from its cocoon and taking to the sky.

All I had was natural ability.

All I have is natural ability.

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

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.

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

Animation is about timing; movement or lack of movement, often in time with music. These are the tools which make it's visual gags work, or not. Again, comics don't have those tools, so you have to find some sort of parallel to create something that suggests a close approximation of the source material, but without the ability to truly replicate it.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections.

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.

As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

As ability goes, so goes our fortune.

As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

Asil left Bran alone with his thoughts then, because if he stayed, Bran would argue with him. This way, Bran would have no one to argue with but himself. And Asil had always credited Bran with the ability to be persuasive.

As a species, we're always seeking out authenticity. We're dying for authenticity. We smell it immediately, and we also smell even the slightest riff of somebody who's not completely true to who they are. We have that ability because, as a species, we have organized around stories. We tell them and we subscribe to them.

A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.

Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability.

barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

Be confident in yourself, in your abilities, and in your goals. Then go for it.

Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.