Ability Quotes

• Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Vote

• I was thinking about … how disarming is the ability to make people laugh. It’s a gift, mimicry, but it’s not acting; in a way it’s the opposite of acting, which is why comedians are seldom good actors. There’s an element of exaggeration in the imposture; the copy is the original painted with a broad brush and it can be grotesque, even cruel. But no one is offended. People are drawn to the funnyman who can imitate a politician or a famous actor or an ethnic type, especially his own ethnic type.

  

  Valerie Martin
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Disarming

• I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to do with believing that it’s possible and acceptable for you to do it. We’ve had these doors open wide for only a decade or so, and most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• 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
  • Long
  • Waiting
  • Chance

• These guys don't have all the physical ability but they are able to win basketball games because they play the right way.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Way
  • Games
  • Basketball

• I just go out there and play basketball. God’s given me the ability. The only thing I can do is go out and play.

  

  Chamique Holdsclaw
  • God
  • Play
  • Basketball

• Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Wells
  • Determine

• 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
  • God
  • Power
  • Faith

• I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

  

  Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • Why
  • Interest
  • Public

• Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Worry
  • Ill

• I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Care
  • Husband
  • Heartbreaking

• Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

  

  David Plowright
  • Company
  • Fitness
  • Reliable

• No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Chance
  • Born
  • Circumstances

• Don't underestimate her ability to talk, it's her superpower.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Talk
  • Underestimate
  • Her

• Change is never a matter of ability, it's always a matter of motivation.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Change
  • Ability
  • motivation

• The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'

  

  Nick Fradiani
  • Artist
  • Ability
  • Ear

• An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.

  

  Betty Edwards
  • Information
  • Ability
  • Processing

• We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Dream
  • Problem
  • Needs

• Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Influence
  • Mood
  • Comparison

• I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.

  

  Cat Cora
  • Money
  • Difference
  • Launched

• The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Ability
  • Assets
  • Be kind

• Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Ability
  • Collaborate
  • Software innovation

• The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

  

  Confucius
  • Ability
  • Recognize
  • Limitations

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