Ability Quotes

• Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.

  

  Susan L. Taylor
  • Problems
  • Handle
  • Situations

• Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortablene ss directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Help
  • Change

• I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Job
  • Game
  • Ability

• I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Ability
  • Songs
  • Prose

• 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.)

  

  Charles Issawi
  • Underestimate
  • Factor
  • Advanced

• Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.

  

  Carl Zuckmayer
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• 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.

  

  Ann Lewin-Benham
  • Child
  • Ability
  • Foundation

• Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.

  

  William F. Schulz
  • Mistake
  • Terrorist
  • Exploits

• A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • World
  • Art
  • Lying

• Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • People
  • Moving
  • Ability

• Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.

  

  William P. Young
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Forget

• I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged other subjects.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Natural
  • Special
  • Cameras

• I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Free
  • Leadership
  • Recognizes

• I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Stage
  • Skills
  • Keep Up

• 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.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
  • Advice
  • Argument
  • Praise

• Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Leader
  • Talent
  • Empowering

• I've never had a band with more than 3 people (meaning only two string players), so I love having the ability for 3-part polyphony.

  

  Colin Marston Behold... The Arctopus
  • People
  • Band
  • Player

• I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.

  

  Vittoria Ceretti
  • People
  • Trust
  • Read

• It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Success
  • Way
  • Failure

• We need the ability to buy healthcare insurance across state lines that would increase competition and drive down cost.

  

  Monica Crowley
  • Competition
  • Would
  • Health care

• I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Photograph

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

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Ability
  • No-Brainer

• The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Moral
  • Ability
  • Educate

• A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • People
  • Leader
  • Ability

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