Ability Quotes
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At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.
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Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.
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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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I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
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I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.
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If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?
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Faith in yourself, in your friends, in your colleagues and most of all, faith in your ability to impact our future is the best strategy I know.
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I told our guys it's very important for us to go home this winter and not give anybody the ability to call us losers again. They've been called that for 12 straight years.
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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
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Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.
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What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
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I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
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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 actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?
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The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
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True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.
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If parents and grandparents vote to leave, they'll be voting to gamble with their children and grandchildren's future. At a time when people are rightly concerned about inter-generational fairness, the most unfair decision that the older generation could make would be to take Britain out of Europe and damage the ability of young people to get on in life.
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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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A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.
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The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
