Ability Quotes
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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.
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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
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Many times, I like to read the script before I even know who they want me to play, so I can read it and really enjoy it as an audience member. I think that's given me the ability to ferret out the really special scripts from all the rest.
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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.
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Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.
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The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.
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When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.
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My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.
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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.
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As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.
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There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
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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.
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One of the chief reasons for the widespread fear of the Huns rested on their ability to travel very long distances in relatively short periods. This ability may well have been based on their use of horseshoes.
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The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.
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I no longer need to rule the world, Chay-Ara. I now have the ability to change it.
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Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
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You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.
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Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.
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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.
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Producing the vibration of love is based on your ability to feel deep pain...go into those feelings...and to find peace once again.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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Old age begins at the moment when a person has lost his ability to learn.
