Ability Quotes

• As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.

  

  Brad Stevens
  • Result
  • Coach
  • Regardless

• The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Politicians
  • Scientists
  • Failures

• It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.

  

  Ezekiel Hopkins
  • God
  • Ability
  • Christians

• The quarterbacks who are picked in the first round and are declared - and I don't like the word - busts, it's not that the scouts were wrong about their ability or their potential. But commitment is such a huge part of it.

  

  Archie Manning
  • Ability
  • Potential
  • Quarterback

• 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

• The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.

  

  William Ickes
  • Thoughts
  • Ability
  • Infer

• 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

• The difference between acting badly or brilliantly is not based on your ability, but on the state of your mind and/or body in any given moment.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Body

• The greatest ability is dependability.

  

  Bob Jones, Sr.
  • Ability
  • Dependability

• Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Overcoming

• Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Music
  • Ability
  • Nothing

• Do everything to the best of your ability.

  

  Meredith Vieira
  • Ability
  • Everything

• I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability...talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.

  

  Andrew Loomis
  • Talent
  • Ability
  • Capacity

• All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Kids
  • Poetry
  • Draw

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

  

  Billy Lawrence
  • Proud
  • Ability

• The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

  

  Steven Adler
  • Ability
  • Rule
  • Drum

• History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.

  

  Nicolas Gomez Davila
  • Ability
  • Task
  • Governing

• When it came down to technical skill and ability of the two teams, Croatia were far superior.

  

  Alan Mullery
  • Skill
  • Teams
  • Croatia

• There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Struggle
  • Talent
  • Media

• I believe the ability to measure, with precision, the degree of human activity's impact on the climate is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.

  

  Scott Pruitt
  • Debate
  • Climate
  • Human Activity

• I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts.

  

  Judy Blume
  • People
  • Hate
  • Kind

• Man, I have absolutely zero ability into narrowing absolutely any of my favorites into just one, but I have to say, I gotta go between Undertaker and Triple H. Other than all the obvious reasons, but the biggest one for me, those are the only two guys, I could make a mistake and it would be okay. I could put the trust of the match, the story, and absolutely everything into their hands and let go of my control. I'm a control freak (laughs). Those are the only two guys I can let drive and take my hands off the steering wheel.

  

  Shawn Michaels
  • Control
  • Reason
  • Mistake

• The one area where I'll say that Hendrix is underrated was his ability to use chord melodies. He used different inversions of chords and was able to make a three-piece band sound absolutely huge. From the moment Hendrix and the Experience came on the scene, power trios had their work cut out for them.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Band
  • Able
  • Absolutely

• My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

  

  Michael Madigan
  • Ought
  • Based
  • Taxation

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