Ability Quotes

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The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life. — Andrew Taylor
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment,… — Sammy Sosa
There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press… — Ronald Steel
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe. — Paul Weyrich
We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so… — Malcolm Gladwell
If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand'… — Hannah Arendt
Believing that you can move mountains sometimes is more important than actually having the ability to do so. — Joshua Kushner
A girl who sacrifices self-respect for social popularity debases true womanhood. A spotless character, founded upon the ability to say "no" in the presence of… — David O. McKay
You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up. — Jim Capaldi
Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you… — Joan D. Chittister
I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle… — Bill Cosby
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. — Ben Bernanke
Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty. — Ian Maclaren
The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns… — Paulo Coelho
The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return. — Paulo Coelho
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend… — Akio Morita
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. — Lowell Thomas
God's way of dealing with us is to throw us into situations over our depth, then supply us with the necessary ability to swim. — Catherine Marshall
Development can indeed continue beyond childhood and youth, beyond the seventies. It can continue until the very end of life, given purposes that challenge and… — Betty Friedan

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