Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.

The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.

The most important thing is that you actually care, that you do something to the very best of your ability

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take

The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

There are situations where you can either rise to the occasion or you can feel sorry for yourself. Really that's within your own abilities to make that decision.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

There is the finest line between data and evidence.

There is only one proof of ability - action.

There's one thing that shows up on all of the lists of what makes us human: language. Our ability to share our thoughts and complex information with others far surpasses all the barks, squeaks and growls of our animal friends.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.

The triple-double is just a stat. It's a test of your strength and stamina and playing ability, really.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.” – Chloe Traeger

The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.