Ability Quotes

• 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'm lucky because I have the ability to look at the brighter side of life.

  

  Phaneesh Murthy
  • Life
  • Ability
  • Bright Side

• 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.

  

  Willie Herron
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Shining

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

  

  Michael Grimm
  • Successful
  • Ability
  • Thing

• I want to live so that I am truly submitted to the Spirit's leading on a daily basis. Christ said its better for us that the Spirit came and I want to live like that is true. I don't want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Spirit
  • Bases
  • Crawling

• Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Democracy
  • Identity
  • Sick

• I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Goodness

• Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Ability
  • Innate

• We tried to get him the ball. That was one of the strategies we tried to do coming into the game. With his size and his ability, one of the things we wanted to do was get him the ball.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Game
  • Ball
  • Strategies

• Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Art
  • Personality
  • Expression

• The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Men
  • Ability
  • Dangerous

• Spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions, you could be rewarded with a room full of your peers or your community who will listen.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Community
  • Opinion
  • Teach

• The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • inspirational
  • Differences
  • Manage

• The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Speak
  • Wonderful

• 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.

  

  Rhea Seehorn
  • People
  • Different
  • Inspire

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

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Writing
  • Ability
  • Medicine

• If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a woman who's slept with a lot of men, I've always been complimented on my ability to attract men.

  

  Susan Cheever
  • Woman
  • Attract
  • Complimented

• I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Community
  • Ability
  • Circumstances

• Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Novel

• 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.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Impact
  • Strategy
  • Colleagues

• We keep growing because more people are concerned about improving their health, regardless of their age or ability.

  

  Nancy Lieberman
  • Growing
  • Health
  • Ability

• 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?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Life
  • Money
  • Ability

• I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done.

  

  Nicklas Bendtner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Talking

• 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.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Inspire

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