Ability Quotes
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So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
Vint Cerf
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Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball.
Dellin Betances
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Information overload hampers our ability to understand novelty when we see it.
Amy Webb
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I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.
Willow Smith
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Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.
Marianne Williamson
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There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
Thomas Sowell
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I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.
Joseph Nye
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Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.
Brian Tracy
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But our young players are older and wiser and the ability is there, so we will be okay.
Bobby Charlton
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Thank you guys for believing in my ability and supporting me in my Olympic journey.
Simone Biles
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Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
Yasiin Bey Black Star
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It's just learning the game more. Just trying to approach it in a John Stockton-type of way, to where you don't play so much with your physical ability all the time. You have to think the game out a lot more. That's where I'm a lot better. I know the game a lot more. I see things before they happen a lot.
Allen Iverson
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we found that success correlates more closely with confidence than it does with competence. Yes, there is evidence that confidence is more important than ability when it comes to getting ahead. This came as particularly unsettling news to us, having spent our own lives striving toward competence.
Katty Kay
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Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.
William Powell
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I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.
Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
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Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.
Vaclav Havel
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.
Don Henley The Eagles
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When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.
Thomas Sowell
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I watched and learned about music as a member of Big Bang. Of course it's important to show my charms as an artist by showing my abilities but that's what our solo activities are for.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
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I continue to be amazed by our bodies' ability for self-repair. ... Our bodies want to be healthy, if we would just let them. That's what these new research articles are showing: Even after years of beating yourself up with a horrible diet, your body can reverse the damage, open back up the arteries-even reverse the progression of some cancers. Amazing! So it's never too late to start exercising, never too late to stop smoking and never too late to start eating healthier.
Michael Greger
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
Bill Vaughan