Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

The beauty of history is that historians have the ability to find patterns, the big picture. When you make a movie, you try to find that. I'm doing in the cinema what historians try to do in their own media.

The best antidote to stress is resilience... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

The best simpleminded test of expertise in a particular area is an ability to win money in a series of bets on future occurrences in that area.

The body can limit our ability to experience life to the fullest, especially if we identify ourselves as being only our bodies.

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.

The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

The excitement that science possess is its ability to answer the big questions.

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

The greatest ability is dependability.

The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.

The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

The increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect. Our ability to predict that effect is very limited.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

The key to success is often the ability to adapt

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

The king is the man who can.

The key to successfully working with each other is that they respect each other and their abilities.

The main thing is, too many players feel like they're complete players when they're not, so rather than acknowledge their limitations and play within their ability, they overreach.

The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability.

The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.

The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.