Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

Lenny Breau had the ability to reach into your heart.

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

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

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.

Life is the ability to start over again.

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.

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 the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.

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

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

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.

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.

Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Man's ability to delude himself is infinite.

Many cricketers who had more ability than I had, Why they didn't make more runs than I did, I don't know

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of that gift.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space, and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

My strength is in my ability to be versatile.

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.

My imperfections will never override God’s promises. God’s promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.

My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.