Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. — Baltasar Gracian
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made… — Jennifer Granholm
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions… — Brian Greene
I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if… — Cathy Guisewite
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen.… — Gail Collins
I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old. — Joan Collins
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. — Confucius
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability… — Confucius
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. — Confucius
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength… — Joseph Conrad
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short… — Calvin Coolidge
I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school. — Francis Ford Coppola
I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should.… — Billy Corgan
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common… — Rachel Cusk
I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices. — Claire Danes
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody… — Mos Def
When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component… — Alan Dershowitz
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. — Rene Descartes
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to… — Zooey Deschanel
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a… — Joan Didion
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. — Edsger Dijkstra
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right. — Barry Diller
In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants… — Novak Djokovic
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. — Frederick Douglass

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