Ability Quotes

5560 Ability quotes by 3394 unique authors

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
The fact that God accepts us should be our motivation for accepting ourselves. If we cannot accept ourselves the way we are, with our limitations… — Josh McDowell
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether… — Daniel Goleman
I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective… — John Wooden
If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of… — Marilyn Jager Adams
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout… — Bergen Evans
One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of… — Donald Michael Kraig
Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency… — Peter Senge
Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness. — Steve Mann
What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves… — Bill Janklow
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state'… — Stephen D. Cox
What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion… — Arsene Wenger
Space is an environment of emptiness. It offers no possibility for natural adaptation to any living organism - and particularly not to the highly sophisticated… — Hubertus Strughold
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from… — Hippocrates
God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him. — David Jeremiah
But it's God who gives us the ability to do things, even to gain wealth; and we must remember that what we do is only… — David Jeremiah

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