Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

It's the sustained ability to change that really counts.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

It takes a lot more than ability to run fast; it takes the ability to keep coming back and coming back.

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.

I've always believed in my abilities. Nobody ever gave me anything in life. I had to work for everything I got. It may have gotten really rocky for a while, but I persevered, because I'm not afraid of failing.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it.

I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.

I've been blessed with plenty of ability. It's just not as easily noticed as some guys.

I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

I've never doubted my ability.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

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

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.

I warm naturally to the drummer whose ideas and approach are strong, even if he doesn't quite have the ability to carry them out.

I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

I would say that my strength is my speed and my ability to win head balls.

I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.

Know your audience. If I don't share in a way that will be understood, I lose my ability to connect.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire.

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

Learning is less about memorizing facts and more about the ability to think.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters — what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability — is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.

Life is the ability to start over again.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

Loneliness cannot be shared.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.