Ability Quotes

• Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Successful
  • Gold
  • Higher

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

  

  Michael Madigan
  • Ought
  • Based
  • Taxation

• We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Friends
  • Cherish
  • Amuse

• Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

  

  Sister Parish
  • Past
  • Design
  • Innovation

• One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

  

  William Gibson
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Strange

• 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

• I think the fact that Donald Trump is running now is the greatest to perhaps myself, and, again, Ivanka's Trump and Eric's Trump abilities to be able to run this company because he's not the kind of guy that would leave or jeopardize those people's families, their livelihoods to go do something where he wouldn't be in charge.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Running

• 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 no longer need to rule the world, Chay-Ara. I now have the ability to change it.

  

  Casper Crump
  • World
  • Change
  • Rule

• The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Observation
  • Cynism

• 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

• I just want to thank the good Lord for giving me the ability to play the game I love.

  

  Nick Foles
  • Love
  • Play
  • Ability

• The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

  

  Wang Yangming
  • Believe
  • Mistake
  • inspirational

• When you're the person who's kind of in charge of everything a lot of the time, it's sometimes nice to get bossed around. It's sometimes nice to have somebody say, "This is what I want you to do" and to stretch your abilities.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Men
  • Fortune
  • Laboratory

• This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.

  

  Paul Cellucci
  • Energy
  • Ability
  • Transmission

• I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

  

  Stieg Larsson
  • Words
  • Ability
  • Editor

• Ability is noting without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• 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

• Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Ability
  • Firsts

• Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Confidence
  • Self-confidence

• If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.

  

  Scooter Braun
  • Ability

• He's a big body that can run. I would like him to have a little bit more ability to flip his hips and run in certain situations. But I think he can really be a good football player.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Ability
  • Hips
  • Football Player

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