Ability Quotes · Page 39

“The ability to learn is one thing, the ability to think is something totally different”

— Clive Barry

“You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you.”

— Allan Hennessy

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Not everybody gets the ability to pursue work that's joyful all the time.

— Mike Faist

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

— Anne Hathaway

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

— Daniel Kahneman

People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.

— Jon Voight

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

— Haile Gebrselassie

When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when…

— Zach Woods

Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses…

— Nachman of Breslov

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast…

— Steve Backley

I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the…

— Sherri Shepherd

Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve…

— Annie Sprinkle

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others…

— Nelson Mandela

I think Iran is a very dangerous country - very dangerous to Israel, to the Middle East, and also to the United…

— Dutch Ruppersberger

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the…

— John Oates

I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is,…

— Eric McCormack

A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that…

— Charlie Munger

Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak…

— Diodorus Siculus

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season…

— LeBron James

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part…

— Rush Limbaugh

Life is trying to teach us one thing: to see the Eck, Holy Spirit, in the eyes of all we meet. This…

— Harold Klemp

With the level of uncertainty we see today, more people are asking, how can you develop a strategy in a world that…

— Orit Gadiesh

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

— Laurie Anderson

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

— Thomas Aquinas

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

— Vivek Shraya

“Be proud of what you do. But do something worth being proud of.”

— Steve Larson

It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.

— Chris Burke

The ability to infer the specific content of another person's thoughts and feelings.

— William Ickes

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

— Whitney M. Young

I've got the ability to control my destiny, and I take pride in that.

— Jordan Burroughs

Always remain strong, no matter what. Your strength and your ability to keep going is what defines you.

— Anonymous

“Cut my legs off but don't take away my ability to think, dream, and write”

— Thomas DeBaggio

It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.

— Shahrukh Khan

“the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

— Brian Tracy

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

— Zig Ziglar

Everybody's got the ability to cook. They just have to be shown.

— Ainsley Harriott

I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

— Leon Panetta

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

— Beatrice Lillie