Ability Quotes · Page 106

Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence

— Tony Robbins

We evolved the ability to communicate disappointment to teach those around us good manners

— Hannibal

Just because someone loves you, doesn't mean they aren't capable of hurting you & making mistakes.

— Anonymous

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

— Geoffrey Canada

He just has the knack, the ability, to do something special and crucial. This is Messi.

— Lothar Matthaus

People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.

— Albert Bandura

You should do what you're supposed to do and hope that that ripples out.

— Don Cheadle

What one should possess is the ability to carry off a role with panache. Once you do that, you're in.

— Shobana

That is what is happening in America. People see things, but still they've just completely lost the ability to think critically.

— Park Yeon-mi

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails…

— Ludwig von Mises

The computer age has arrived, and it influences everything: analysis, preparation, information. Now a different talent is required - the ability to…

— Boris Spassky

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

— Ernest Hemingway

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright…

— Hilary Rosen

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never…

— Charlie Hunnam

The ability to play different people, grasp at what is running in their head and be somebody completely different from who I…

— Sameera Reddy

Deep practice is built on a paradox: struggling in certain targeted ways-operating at the edges of your ability, where you make mistakes-makes…

— Daniel Coyle

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a…

— Erich Fromm

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with…

— Edmund Burke

To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that…

— Rod Paige

Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His…

— Zygmunt Bauman

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning…

— Sarah Dessen

We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task…

— Daphne Bavelier

Investors should always keep in mind that the most important metric is not the returns achieved but the returns weighed against the…

— Seth Klarman

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.

— George Matthew Adams

If you’re not going to do it to the best of your ability, then don’t do it at all.

— Scooter Braun

Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want…

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Louis Nizer

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

— Robyn Hitchcock

We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.

— Brandon Mull

If your hair is dry, your waves will not form to the best of their ability.

— Brad Mondo

Preventing surveillance of millions of people at a time is totally within our ability.

— Alex Stamos

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

— Denis Waitley

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.

— William J. Clinton

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

— Alfredo Jaar

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do

— Damon Throop

Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

— Keri Smith