Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.

It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness.

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

I've never doubted my ability.

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

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

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

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 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 and ability were tools, not things to show off.

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

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

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

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

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

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

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

Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

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

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.