Ability Quotes

• When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

  

  Henry Flynt
  • People
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.

  

  Arthur M. Jolly
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Ability

• 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 have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.

  

  Tan Sri Dato' Seri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng
  • Discipline
  • Roles
  • Demand

• 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

• I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

  

  Trevor Rabin Cinema
  • Important
  • Emotional
  • Enemy

• Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Experience
  • Funny
  • Creativity

• All singers, no matter how gifted, should always try to go improve. And all students begin in the same place despite the level of their talent. It's like bodybuilding: All people who train use similar exercises no matter how naturally physically endowed a person may be. I have worked with many of the most brilliant singers in modern music and it's always the case that they have a great deal of under-realized potential no matter how amazing their abilities.

  

  Gary Catona
  • People
  • Trying
  • Exercise

• The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Company
  • Ability
  • Product

• He felt that both parts of his life were continually ‘spying on each other’, and developed the ability to step into and out of either world.

  

  Brian Masters
  • Life
  • World
  • Spying

• Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Ability
  • Weakness
  • Ingratitude

• The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Company
  • Ability
  • Primary

• It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

  

  Calvin Jillson
  • House
  • Republican
  • Congress

• I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • Ability
  • Sing
  • Influences

• I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.

  

  Blake Roney
  • People
  • Success
  • Skills

• I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • People
  • Literature
  • Theology

• I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Honor
  • Discipline
  • Promise

• 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

• I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability to figure out people's rhythms. It all starts from the script.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Mean
  • Rhythm
  • Scripts

• I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.

  

  Sean Faris
  • Fighting
  • Needs
  • Ridiculous

• Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Political

• Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Music
  • Ability
  • Nothing

• Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Enemy
  • Conflict
  • Absence

• Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Opportunity
  • Ability
  • Out

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