Quotes with ability

  • Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.
  • Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
  • Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
  • When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.
  • Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
  • The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
  • When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
  • What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
  • It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
  • What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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  • John Wooden Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Gore Vidal A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Ability without honor is useless.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Harry S. Truman It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • James Baldwin Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Roy L. Smith Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Douglas Adams Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Stephen R. Covey People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Joan Didion The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison A famous person is often remembered for the ability to take from mankind rather than for his ability to give to mankind.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Salman Rushdie An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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