Ability Quotes
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Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.
Simon Sinek
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The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
Mo Udall
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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.
William Glasser
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Win with ability, not with numbers.
Alexander Suvorov
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Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the benefit of your generation.
William Booth
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As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.
Charles Landry
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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.
Ned Yost
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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.
Bessel van der Kolk
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I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.
William C. DeMille
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If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.
Richard Feynman
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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
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Faith is the ability to have trust in powers greater than yourself, to confidently stride into the unknown, and to believe in your own abilites-no matter what.
David Wolfe
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My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive.
Arthur Tress
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Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?
Bisco Hatori
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..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
Shawn Achor
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Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that you think, "Oh, wow, this is just great." And you look at it a week later and you realize you'd been excited by the act of creation, but what you've created is not really exciting when you look at it in cold blood. And so that, to me, is a valuable lesson also.
Warren MacKenzie
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I would love to have the ability to see inside everyone's heart before I heard them speak or even saw their faces.
Nia Long
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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.
Bill Crawford
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Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.
Jerry Bridges
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I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.
Audrey Flack
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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
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I was probably born with some designing abilities.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.
Eric Thomas
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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.
Michael Korda