Ability Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

— Eli Roth

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their…

— Jack LaLanne

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

— Dorothea Brande

“Humans need challenges to overcome, just like a muscle needs resistance to grow. In a zero-gravity environment, an astronaut’s muscles atrophy because there is…

— Adam Carolla

Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Life yields only to the conqueror.

— Dag Hammarskjold

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of…

— Robert Anton Wilson

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our…

— Jason Silva

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

— E. Stanley Jones

The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put…

— Marcel Proust

The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need…

— Roger Cohen