Top 1200 Ability Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.

Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and intelligence

Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.

I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

I think I've lost that ability to slow things down - that ability drivers have to calculate what's coming by you at tremendous speed. I used to have it.

People who wish to go into the future should have two skills to succeed - the ability to deal with people and the ability to sell.

To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.

Grace Kelly plays with intelligence, wit and feeling. She has a great amount of natural ability and the ability to adapt. That is the hallmark of a first-class jazz musician.

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.

Success is the ability to meet worthy goals, but it's also the ability to love and have compassion and the ability to get in touch with your creative center, to transform yourself toward more peaceful and just pursuits. I hope we redefine success. Otherwise, we'll see more of what we're already seeing - more aggression, more burnout, more Wall Street scandals, more war, more terrorism, more eco-destruction.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

My ability to model does not have an effect on my ability to be an actress. But casting directors and agents in the U.K. wouldn't give me the time of day.

I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it was where it began. An ability to make products cheaper than anywhere else gave way to an ability to make high end products more nimbly than anywhere else.

When a child shuts down his painful emotional side, he also loses the ability to express his joyous side. Emotions are a whole. With anger comes the ability to express delight; with sadness comes the ability to express lightheartedness. This is the breadth of emotion that allows an adult to experience intimacy with a spouse, with God, and with his children

Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects.

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

If you have the ability to desire it, the Universe has the ability to deliver it. You've just got to line up with what you want, which means— be as happy as you can be as often as you can be there, and let everything else take care of itself.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That's how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most. ... Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I know I have the ability to start, and I have the ability to play.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

I feel my overall skill set, my ability to make players around me better, and my ability to help my team win is unique.

Any new thing that comes out with the ability to enhance our show or my ability to communicate with fans and give people more behind-the-scenes access, you know we'll be all over it.

Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer. The ability to judge distances when running in traffic.

One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from motives of love, kindness, and humility, and to do so gracefully, when no sin is involved. It also means the ability to stand on principle, and not to give in, when sin is involved.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but they'll also have the ability to control the message whatever that might be.

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

I think the elements to shock the world is either the ability to wrestle and grind somebody out or the ability to knock someone out.

Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.

They have more ability in the middle of the field in terms of ability

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

The ability of the president to be perceived as someone with whom all Israelis can identify depends on his ability to avoid being a party to debate.

People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.