Ability Quotes · Page 85

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

— Dick Gregory

“If you are capable, but not available, nature will raise a person with lesser ability to replace you soon.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

— Richard Wagner

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

— W. Eugene Smith

“Intelligence is the ability to understand the problem and find a solution to that problem.”

— Awdhesh Singh

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

— Alan King

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for…

— Alfred Adler

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games.…

— Jane McGonigal

To be a top performer you have to be passionately committed to what you're doing and insanely confident about your ability to…

— John Eliot

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score…

— Christine Sinclair

I look for the ability to work. Directing is hard work. They don't teach you that in film school. Critics are not…

— Roger Corman

You can't surprise LeBron any more. He's such a smart player. His intellect has caught up with his athletic ability.

— Dwane Casey

I have my parents to keep me in check, a team that loves me, and I have the ability to go out…

— Brian Ortega

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing…

— Noam Chomsky

I've never stolen anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I once accidentally took a gift card from a store in a mall.…

— Zoe Kazan

An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try…

— Paul Arden

Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is…

— Gerald Jay Sussman

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen…

— King Everett KeithThe Encourager

Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which…

— Jimmy Carter

No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights…

— Ingmar Bergman

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself…

— Francis Frangipane

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I only played to the best of my ability and with passion. Call it what you will.

— Garfield Sobers

I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that.

— George Ezra

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

— Karl Marx

Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!

— Billy Graham

The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.

— Spike Jonze

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

— Mike Birbiglia

I think women have the ability to stick with things over a long period of time.

— Heidi Ewing

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.

— John C. Bogle

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

— Walter Mosley

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

— Anchee Min

Anything they can do to you, they can do for you; and anything they can do for you, they can do to…

— The Covert Comic

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

— Kanye West

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

— Anonymous

Everybody has to take curveballs as they come in life and hopefully have the ability to adjust their plans.

— Chris Sullivan

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

— Marilyn vos Savant