Ability Quotes
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You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
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God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
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I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.
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I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.
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A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
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The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.
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Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.
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Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and to be directly aware.
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Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
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Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.
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Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have to do in standup is create spontaneity, somehow; even though you've done this act a million times, you gotta look like you're almost just thinking of it now, to make it entertainer.
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He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
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All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?
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The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight.
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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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Stupid people like to delude themselves that while they may not be clever, they were at least able to compensate with feelings and insights denied to the intellectual....It was precisely this kind of false belief that made stupid people so stupid. The truth was the clever people had infinitely more resources from which to make the leaps of connection that the world called intuition. What was 'intelligence' after all, but the ability to read into things?
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No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
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An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.
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Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
