Best 1209 quotes in «ability quotes» category

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

I think I've always had the abilities, but the object has been to perform as well as I can.

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.

I think I have a natural ability to lead.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.

It isn't cool to abuse the ability to swing.

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.

It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities.

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

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.

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

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

It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

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 pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

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

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

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

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

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

It takes a lot more than ability to run fast; it takes the ability to keep coming back and coming back.

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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 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 been blessed with plenty of ability. It's just not as easily noticed as some guys.

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

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 a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

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

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.