Ability Quotes
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Responsibility is the ability to respond.
Lucille Ball
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I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
William Feather
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Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.
Thomas Dewar
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Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
Anthony Robbins
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I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players
Michael Michele
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Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us
Anthony Robbins
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It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight.
Carlos E. Asay
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The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.
Lou Thesz
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I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
Raymond Kelly
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Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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I felt I had a good ear, and I had the ability to sing like my influences.
Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
Robin Williams
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I like the big bombastic singers, but I'm also very drawn to what I call character singers. They're people who obviously aren't very huge singers, but they've got this ability to tell a story and touch you emotionally without really using any kind of histrionics or special effects.
Boy George Culture Club
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The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system.
Lao Tzu
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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
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In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.
William Arthur Ward
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... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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
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The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.
William P. Young
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Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.
Richard L. Evans
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Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.
Brian Tracy
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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