Ability Quotes

• Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Ability
  • Combination
  • Unbeatable

• You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Feeling
  • Ability
  • Show

• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Change
  • Purpose
  • Achieve

• 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.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Good
  • God
  • Children

• To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.

  

  Edvard Grieg
  • Beautiful
  • Mystery
  • Requirement

• I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

  

  Vir Das
  • Ability
  • Films
  • Niche

• I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Accomplishment
  • Leisure
  • Verses

• 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.

  

  Will Durant
  • Freedom
  • Ability
  • Desires

• All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Children
  • Paint
  • Geniuses

• Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Accumulation

• Just remember that if you're not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability who is. And one day you'll play each other, and he'll have the advantage.

  

  Ed Macauley
  • Remember
  • Play
  • Games

• When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • World
  • Hand

• Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Feels

• Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.

  

  Vladimir Bukovsky
  • People
  • Torture
  • Colleagues

• It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.

  

  Bob Gibson
  • Color
  • Given
  • Skins

• The best compensation for doing things is the ability to do more.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Things
  • Ability
  • Compensation

• The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Great
  • United States

• We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • Good
  • High

• 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.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Ability
  • Consciousness
  • Involves

• Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Leadership

• Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Governments
  • Human Life
  • Sufficient

• Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • People
  • Pay
  • Temples

• Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Financial
  • Enterprise
  • Organize

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