Quotes with ability

Quotes 61 till 80 of 278.

  • John Wooden Ability is a poor man's wealth.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Christopher Wren Ability is a poor man's wealtli.
    Christopher Wren
    British scientist and architect (1632 - 1723)
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  • Napoleon Ability is of little account without opportunity.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Casey Stengel Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Accountability breeds response-ability.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Jim Rohn All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Barry Humphries Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
    Op Broadway in Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance 2004
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Bill Bryson And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Uecker 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.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • L. Ron Hubbard Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Anthony Robbins Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Horowitz By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Karl Marx Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Jean Rostand Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Ben Bernanke Consumers going through foreclosure typically will see their credit scores drop, raising longer-term questions about their ability to rebound financially and perhaps pursue a more sustainable home purchase at some later point.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Barr Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Aleister Crowley Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say ''no.'' I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • John Wooden Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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