Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to pull it off.

To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.

To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love.

To make something, you have to work within your abilities. Honestly assess what you can do and even more important, what can't you do.

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

Trump is not haphazard. Trump has the ability to improvise at a rally or go off the prompter at some point.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

Trusting others puts us at risk. Yet failure to trust entails risk as well. The ability to navigate through this minefield successfully is one of life’s most valuable assets. DeSteno provides by far the best account of what science has learned about how we do this. The Truth About Trust is also a terrific read.

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

True vision is the ability to see in another more than they are showing you.

Trump has a pretty remarkable ability, going back to when he was in business, to reframe defeats as wins. So he had four business bankruptcies and he found a way to say that those are actually wins for him.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Understand that you have the ability to get healthy and stay healthy.

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see.

We all have abilities. I don't want to be recognized for my disability; I want to be recognized for my ability.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

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

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

We are all more capable than we think we are.

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

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

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

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 far more ability than we give ourselves credit for.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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