Ability Quotes
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The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.
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For some people, the experience of sexuality is that they are entirely inside their body, but others feel they have totally transcended the physical boundaries of their body. Transcendence is the ability to no longer feel you are contained within the physical world. For many people, the definition of spiritual is a sense of complete abdication of the self. For some people, it's union with another that transcends the borders between where one stops and where the other person starts and creates a sense of infiniteness and timelessness.
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The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.
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Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.
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I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
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Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
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Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.
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It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.
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Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
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Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
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I have no faith in my ability to judge things.
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The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.
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It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
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You know, trust in the press, polls show - from Pew and other places - have gone down significantly over the years. Maybe the press doesn't have that much ability to frame people's decisions.
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Factor of Error: Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of 2 to 4 the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical. (Examples: Japanese on warplanes, Russians on the bomb, Iranians on refineries, etc.)
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Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
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Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
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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.
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Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.
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I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
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The quantity and quality of your sleep plays a major role in your ability to learn new information.
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You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.
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If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.
