Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they… — Paul Klee
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice… — Jeffrey Kluger
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire… — Jeffrey Kluger
There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive… — Jeffrey Kluger
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. — Jeff Koons
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. — Dean Koontz
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time… — Karl Kraus
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. — Karl Kraus
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. — Karl Kraus
I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that… — Henry Kravis
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. — Milan Kundera
A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good… — Madeleine L'Engle
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. — Dalai Lama
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life. — Adam Lambert
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability,… — Jon Landau
Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have to do in… — Artie Lange
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have… — Fran Lebowitz
Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company… — Tim Berners-Lee
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my… — Doris Lessing
The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy,… — Daniel Day-Lewis
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. — Abraham Lincoln
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims. — Rush Limbaugh
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No,… — Abraham Lincoln
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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