Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’

We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.

We have far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

We're fighting for LGBT rights and for women's rights and for Muslims and for refugees. Well, we shouldn't be fighting for those groups, we should be fighting for freedom and the liberties that are enshrined in our founding documents and that covers everybody: the woman's right to choose, the ability to be able to pursue happiness.

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.

We should not confuse complete faith in God with complete faith in our ability to discern God's voice.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

We've had experience of involvement in a local scene, and it was a good one, and we've learned a lot from it, and I don't have any need to join into that ever again. It's too counterproductive to writing music and performing to the best of your abilities. It's okay when you're 20 years old - you're getting out there and you're learning - but not when you're 30 years old.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly.

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

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

When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible.