Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

A lot of people probably think I'm not athletic or don't even try to work out or whatever, but I do. Just because you're big… — Prince Fielder
Angelo is a brilliant jazz talent. His receptivity, seriousness, his ability to execute ideas simple or complex, combined with his love and feel for the… — Mulgrew Miller
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the… — Mark Twain
A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power… — John Dewey
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the scope of man's… — William Faulkner
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our… — Joshua Foer
Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else. — William Hazlitt
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. — Howard Aiken
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the… — Jean de La Fontaine
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we… — John Cheever
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction. — Russell Baker
The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated… — Margaret Mead
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public… — Henrik Ibsen
What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard… — Loren Eiseley
What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? — Ahad Ha'am
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden.… — Greg Peterson
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality. — Thomas A. Edison
Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and… — Owen Gingerich
Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability. — Priscilla Shirer
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability. — W. Somerset Maugham
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the… — Bill Walton
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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