“He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but… — Gerard Depardieu Copy Share Image
When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you're going to have the ability to win… — Frank Vogel Copy Share Image
Yes. I owed my life, Angel's life, and my mother's life to a mutant's ability to create industrial-strength snot. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives. — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
The three-point line changed everything and the players' ability to be able to make three-pointers changed how you attacked the basket. — Mike D'Antoni Copy Share Image
To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I don't like seeing you cry. You will stop." I'll give you a promise," he said gruffly. "And then you will cease… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
You are capable of so much more. You have so much more to learn and to give. You have much more power… — Ricardo Housham Copy Share Image
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
'To Speak' we don't have to Pay anything other than the 'ability to Speak', but we have to 'Pay Heavily for what… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently - that affected what… — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The true measure of a man is not in his intellect, his brawn, etc. It's in how long he can hold out… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever lost 462 races and then just won. But Dale Earnhardt Sr. had told me I had the ability, and… — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I'm a wrestler, a very polished wrestler and some of my best attributes in wrestling are my scrambling ability and my clinch. — Derek Brunson Copy Share Image
The Japanese, despite the trade deficit and their ability to build fabulous automobiles, still think that a guy in a monster suit… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I didn't have the ability to blow people off the court, so I needed my legs, my preparation and the ability to… — Michael Chang Copy Share Image
I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your… — James Blake Copy Share Image
I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that… — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the… — Kal Penn Copy Share Image