Ability Quotes
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Caregivers not only help keep arousal within manageable bounds but also help infants develop their own ability to regulate their arousal.
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So too the growth of modern science depended on the premise of the individual’s ability to judge evidence and argument for himself, free from the authority— though not the argument and evidence—of tradition.
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The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.
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It is in your power to release the ability of God.
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Our greatest problems in life come not so much from the situations we confront as from our doubts about our ability to handle them.
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In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.
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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.
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Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
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There is no one who can stop you; you find a mic, a crowd, a set of ears, and nowadays, a camera and YouTube, and you recite your poem. You have your say. I don't want to over-romanticize it: of course, any time an art form ascends, especially when competition is involved, there will be gatekeeping, chauvinism, and other unfortunate dynamics. But the beauty of spoken word and performance poetry is, by and large, its ability to reach people in the moment - right there, right then.
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One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.
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I've always had faith in my ability. It was about getting other people to believe in it. Over time, that is what has happened.
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I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
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To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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[He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike.
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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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The ability to fight isnt a one-size fits all; everybody is different.
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I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.
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Simblefield, whose ability to camouflage his ignorance was held in well-justified contempt by the rest of the form.
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Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.
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The key to success is often the ability to adapt.
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Ability without enthusiasm is like a rifle without a bullet.
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Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.
