Ability Quotes
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The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.
Michael Bergdahl -
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
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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.
Brad Willis -
Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
Stephen Covey -
You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in - for me to figure out how to feel good, when I'm looking at something that makes me feel bad.
Esther Hicks -
I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.
Elizabeth Wein -
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Saul Bellow -
I trust my ability to play in any defense.
Eric Reid
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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.
Erna Solberg -
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 -
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.
Rick Perry -
No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?
Charles Lever -
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
William James -
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice. The proof of that is the ability of a dictator to snuff out the life of a writer.
Wole Soyinka
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By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.
Stephen Covey -
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 -
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 -
A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
Harry S Truman -
The answer is: the rational faculty, the ability to conceptualize. This was a giant step in evolution, although there were evidently many intermediate species between the apes and modern humans across a period of perhaps six million years.
Edwin A. Locke -
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.
Harry S Truman
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Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.
Noah Levine -
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
Harry S Truman -
I was probably born with some designing abilities.
Mikhail Kalashnikov -
If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.
Heber J. Grant