Ability Quotes · Page 103

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

— Huey Newton

My job is to create a business model that's built on a platform that has the ability to change quickly.

— Kenneth Cole

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get…

— Aristotle

The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.

— Ron Johnson

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I have no ability or interest to play that weak, beaten person.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

— Vanna Bonta

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

— Muriel Barbery

As comedians, we all get into that mode of thinking of the worst thing imaginable - but you usually have the ability…

— Tom Green

I have confidence in my game. I can get up and run the floor to the best of my ability, and above…

— Zach LaVine

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for…

— Wanda Sykes

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue…

— Ben Bernanke

I always prided myself on my ability to choose good clerks, and one of the key elements was whether I thought I…

— John Paul Stevens

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as…

— Rory Cochrane

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

— L. Ron Hubbard

I believe that my parents helped me to keep my natural psychic abilities open. I think most kids see angels or fairies,…

— Doreen Virtue

Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual…

— Howard Gardner

They say when you reach a crossroad or a turning point in life, it really doesn't matter how we got there, but…

— Paris Hilton

I work out hard, and I do things that I feel make me better throughout the race and after the race. And…

— Kasey Kahne

I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England…

— Rachel Cusk

Wal-Mart is like a physical version of YouTube. You can find anything you want on YouTube. It let me access millions of…

— Tara Stiles

[Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are…

— Barack Obama

The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life…

— Saint Basil

Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and…

— Rachel Miner

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

— James Rollins

What is important is that we have the ability to create.

— Stephen Hawking

“He did, however, put in me the ability to make a decision and then make it right.”

— Andy Andrews

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

— Corrie Ten Boom

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

— Evelyn Waugh

You always want to hear from the best about how to be the best.

— Owen Farrell

Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

— Carl Sagan

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

— Will Rogers

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

— Leo Buscaglia

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

— Scott Turow

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

— Brian Herbert

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

— Gene Spafford

One of the greatest abilities is to be able to take criticism

— Sterling W Sill

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

— Garrison Keillor

Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.

— Honore de Balzac