Ability Quotes
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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.
David Lewis-Williams -
This will be a team that could possibly have the ability to surprise some people.
Jamie Moyer
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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 -
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.
William J. H. Boetcker -
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
Henry Ward Beecher -
An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.
Paul Newman -
A commitment to customer success will continue to guide the Wily solution set. Our ability to help customers derive maximum value from their enterprise applications is unparalleled. As part of CA, we look forward to accelerating our development and reaching an even wider audience with the most advanced management solutions in the market.
Dick Williams -
When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.
Michael Hintze
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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 -
The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.
Walter Russell Bowie -
The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca -
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 -
Faith does not rest on your ability to feel God’s love, it rests on His ability to keep His promise.
Colin S. Smith -
When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
Corrie Ten Boom
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The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.
Thomas A. Edison -
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
Louis Nizer -
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 -
I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.
Albert Einstein -
What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?
Ahad Ha'am -
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.
Erykah Badu
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I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down -
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
Ann Druyan -
The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us.
S. I. Hayakawa -
My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.
Lisa Edelstein