Ability Quotes · Page 49

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

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

— Alex Stamos

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

— Damon Throop

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

— Alfredo Jaar

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

— William J. Clinton

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

— Keri Smith

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

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

— Frederick Lenz

“Human cognitive ability cannot efficiently compare more than five options, so most of us will start looking at the first few options…

— Anonymous

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them…

— John Lewis

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House…

— Al Gore

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under…

— Catherine Crier

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents…

— Douglas Coupland

I know I didn't deserve this, but God has given me this baseball ability. So I've got to do whatever I can…

— Clayton Kershaw

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You…

— Nathan Crowley

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power,…

— Chris Hedges

My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Barack Obama

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

— Saint Basil

I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I…

— Bill Tierney

Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave…

— Derek Blasberg

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to…

— John Foster Dulles

I question my own talent and ability to make creative work every single day.

— Victoria Chang

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

Women can be powerful, graceful, and complex, with the ability to make any choice they desire.

— Jessica Chastain

Ability and luck make success happen ,no matter what the circumstances are.

— Kishore Bansal

Self-confidence results, first, from exact knowledge; second, the ability to impart that knowledge.

— Napoleon Hill

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

— Stephen Covey

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

Ability is important in our quest for success, but dependability is critical.

— Zig Ziglar

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

— Jamie Bamber

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

— Raymond Kelly

“You are amazing person with unique talents. Have faith in your abilities.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.

— Martin Van Buren

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.

— Anonymous