Top 1200 Artistic Ability Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.

For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.

Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic banality-or, worse, art compromised on both counts. Neither one will satisfy those who recognize the fundamental necessity of integrity in both faith and art.

Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.

A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation.

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

I check all the boxes. You have a look, in-ring ability, the ability to speak and communicate. I have all that, plus experience.

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

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

Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I have, a lot of doors have opened for me. I can try to pursue, like - if it's something using my writing skills, maybe a book. Or maybe if it's my drawing skills, some clothing designs.

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

You have to separate artistic ability from ethnic origin. Not only am I not black, I am also not a woman, therefore how can I direct women? I am also only 42, therefore how can I direct someone who's 60? So you see where the argument ends up? If you take it to its logical conclusion, I would have to walk around and point a video camera at myself. And who the hell is interested in that?

Do you know the most important trait a man can have? It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance. In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man.

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.

The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs' ability to attack. And it's important - all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

I've always had that confidence in my performance ability and my ability to speak in character.

Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

I've shown I have the ability to reduce spending, I've shown I have the ability to reduce onerous regulations, and I've shown that I have the ability to fight for and restore our privacy and our personal freedoms.

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

barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these words! All of their efforts are focused toward the upward movement rather than the perfection of their artistic ability. Neither do they allow anyone to anything to stand in the way of reaching their goals. This includes wives, families, friends and their children. They are prepared to pay the very high price that success demands.

There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

What I want to try to prove is that artistic games, when done properly, can still be a commercial success. By doing that, I will be able to essentially shift the industry and create more opportunity for people to create artistic games. In a way, making money is important for us right now. Not because we need it, but because the industry needs it.

A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.

The most important thing for any athlete is to know his ability. If you know your ability and have even a little bit of a strong mindset, you can get success, because your ability takes you to success.

I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to think on my feet.

A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.