Ability Quotes

• Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Moments
  • Pleasure
  • Able

• A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.

  

  Johnny Evers
  • Giving
  • Player
  • Reputation

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

  

  Carl Zuckmayer
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ability
  • India
  • Inhabitant

• A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority.

  

  Barry Hughart
  • World
  • Men
  • Study

• He brings an unusual ability to work collaboratively with

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • People
  • Work
  • Brings

• A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Serious

• 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

• When we're always connected, we allow others-colleagu es and celebrities, close friends and distant acquaintances, bloggers and news aggregators-set our life's agenda. Our ability to prioritize is paralyzed by the sheer volume of requests, demands, opportunities, and information.

  

  George Barna
  • Friends
  • Opportunities
  • Agenda

• All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Heart
  • Interest
  • Trade

• 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

• One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • Proud
  • Ability

• 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

• 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

• Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

  

  Carol J. Adams
  • Imagination
  • Imagine
  • Meat

• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  

  Emerson Spartz
  • Humans
  • Influence
  • Impact

• Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

  

  Katharine Jefferts Schori
  • World
  • Community
  • Mean

• The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Difficult

• The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Miracle
  • Realist
  • Unbeliever

• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Quality
  • Ability
  • Excellence

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

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • People
  • Moving
  • Ability

• 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.

  

  John Poindexter
  • Technology
  • Ability
  • Trade-offs

• The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Ability

• I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of.

  

  Antonio Tarver
  • People
  • Ability
  • Show

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