Ability Quotes
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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.
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This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.
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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.
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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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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
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Our ability to most fully experience the divine is directly linked to our ability to most fully experience relationships with other human beings.
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The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
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If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.
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The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...
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Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
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Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.
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To me, money is the ability to create lifelong experiences for my family and myself, to educate my children and a way to give back to humanity.
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Old age begins at the moment when a person has lost his ability to learn.
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Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?
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My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.
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Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability
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Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
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Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.
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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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Power is the ability to afford not to learn.
