Ability Quotes

• I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Struggle

• 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

• The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Reality
  • Faces

• Ability is noting without opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Ability

• 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.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Sometimes
  • Expectations
  • Focused

• 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

• Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Writing
  • Ability
  • Medicine

• I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Reality
  • Ability
  • Remind

• It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Ability
  • Laugh
  • Sense Of Humor

• 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
  • Gold
  • Successful
  • Higher

• 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.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Decision
  • Imagination
  • Choices

• The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

  

  Sendhil Mullainathan
  • Ability
  • Tools
  • Available

• Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

  

  Michael Clarke Duncan
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Hollywood

• I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.

  

  Dustin Poirier
  • Opportunity
  • Ability
  • Champion

• 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

• Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Heart
  • Ability
  • Renounce

• Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child's self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Children
  • Night
  • Sleep

• 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.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Success
  • Ability
  • Develop

• Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.

  

  William Glasser
  • Humans
  • Ability
  • Pay

• In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

  

  Thomas More
  • Art
  • War
  • Interest

• Caregivers not only help keep arousal within manageable bounds but also help infants develop their own ability to regulate their arousal.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Ability
  • Bounds
  • Caregivers

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Observation
  • Cynism

• The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

  

  Michael Grimm
  • Successful
  • Ability
  • Thing

• Win with ability, not with numbers.

  

  Alexander Suvorov
  • Win
  • Ability
  • Numbers

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