234 Quotes on Ability

• Stars shine brightest when surrounded by darkness.

  Author: Maya Patel

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

  Author: Whitney Young

• The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world.

  Author: Ahmed Yassin

• I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

  Author: Teresa Wright

• Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

  Author: Bernie Worrell

• As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

  Author: Alexander Woollcott

• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  Author: John Wooden

• Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

  Author: Kathleen Winsor

• I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

  Author: April Winchell

• I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

  Author: Harold Wilson

• Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.

  Author: Dominique Wilkins

• Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

  Author: Charlotte Whitton

• I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.

  Author: Ron White

• Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

  Author: Rebecca West

• We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it.

  Author: Leon Uris

• The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

  Author: Kathleen Turner

• I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  Author: Ike Turner

• Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

  Author: Bill Toomey

• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

  Author: Alvin Toffler

• My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.

  Author: Glenn Tipton

• Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

  Author: James Thurber

• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

  Author: Lowell Thomas

• The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

  Author: Lowell Thomas

• I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

  Author: Major Taylor

• An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

  Author: Major Taylor

• An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

  Author: Tacitus

• Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

  Author: Donna Summer

• The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

  Author: Stendhal

• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

  Author: Ronald Steel

• As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.

  Author: Terence Stamp

• We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain sources of supply from the Middle East. And it's important we do that.

  Author: John Snow

• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

  Author: Sam Snead

• The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

  Author: Roy Smith

• The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

  Author: Roy Smith

• If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

  Author: Kevin Shelley

• Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

  Author: Gail Sheehy

• Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

  Author: George Shaw

• When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

  Author: John Sexton

• Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

  Author: Arundhati Roy

• I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

  Author: Mickey Rourke

• Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.

  Author: Hilary Rosen

• There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

  Author: David Rose

• Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

  Author: Jim Rohn

• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• All I had was natural ability.

  Author: Branch Rickey

• I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

  Author: Trevor Rabin

• I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

  Author: Richard Pryor

• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

  Author: Gail Porter

• Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

  Author: Marcus Pollio

• But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

  Author: Sidney Poitier

• Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

  Author: Wendell Phillips

• In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

  Author: Mike Pence

• The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

  Author: Vance Packard

• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  Author: Ovid

• The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad.

  Author: Phil Ochs

• So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

  Author: Greg Norman

• I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

  Author: Jack Nicholson

• The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.

  Author: Bob Ney

• It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

  Author: Bob Ney

• Ability is sexless.

  Author: John Newman

• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  Author: Ingrid Newkirk

• I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

  Author: Pola Negri

• I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

  Author: David Neeleman

• Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

  Author: Rupert Murdoch

• I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

  Author: Haruki Murakami

• A plant's ability to grow, increase and sustain itself became of secondary and almost minimal interest.

  Author: Bill Munson

• Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

  Author: Martin Mull

• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

  Author: Roger Moore

• My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

  Author: Colin Mochrie

• Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

  Author: Gary Miller

• Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

  Author: Golda Meir

• The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

  Author: Bryant McGill

• The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.

  Author: Will McDonough

• I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

  Author: Joyce Maynard

• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  Author: W. Maugham

• It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

  Author: Marlee Matlin

• I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

  Author: Demetri Martin

• Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.

  Author: Russell Mark

• The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

  Author: Orison Marden

• Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.

  Author: Mickey Mantle

• Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.

  Author: Steve Mann

• I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

  Author: Norman Mailer

• The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

  Author: Gary Lucas

• I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

  Author: Joe Louis

• I Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability.

  Author: Kenneth Livingstone

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

  Author: Willard Libby

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  Author: Madeleine L'Engle

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  Author: Jack Lemmon

• The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

  Author: Tom Lehrer

• Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

  Author: Serge Lang

• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  Author: Dalai Lama

• It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

  Author: Karl Kraus

• The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

  Author: Brian Koslow

• If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

  Author: Dean Koontz

• Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

  Author: Ray Knight

• This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.

  Author: David Kay

• So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

  Author: Kim Jung

• It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.

  Author: Ron Johnson

• My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

  Author: James Johnson

• I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

  Author: Dwayne Johnson

• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  Author: Barbara Johnson

• Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

  Author: Roland Joffe

• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  Author: Bruce Jenner

• 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 a profit, and that saved the bank.

  Author: Bill Janklow

• I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.

  Author: Louise Jameson

• I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

  Author: LeBron James

• The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

  Author: Alphonso Jackson

• The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

  Author: Washington Irving

• The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

  Author: Ellsworth Huntington

• If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.

  Author: Brett Hull

• There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.

  Author: David Houston

• I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald.

  Author: Lena Horne

• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

  Author: Lou Holtz

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Author: Hans Hofmann

• The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan.

  Author: Morris Hite

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

  Author: Kenny Hickey

• I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

  Author: Anna Held

• I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

  Author: Randy Harrison

• The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.

  Author: Robert Harling

• Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

  Author: Lee Hamilton

• China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

  Author: Lee Hamilton

• Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

  Author: Johann Hamann

• There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

  Author: Robert Half

• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  Author: Maggie Gyllenhaal

• It is the American way to reward ability.

  Author: Judd Gregg

• Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

  Author: Baltasar Gracian

• I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.

  Author: Charlie Gonzalez

• If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

  Author: Daniel Goleman

• Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

  Author: Daniel Goleman

• Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

  Author: Daniel Goleman

• That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

  Author: Paul Gleason

• Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

  Author: Walter Gilbert

• NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

  Author: Marc Garneau

• Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

  Author: Howard Gardner

• The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

  Author: Frank Gaffney

• Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

  Author: R. Fuller

• I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

  Author: Soleil Frye

• The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

  Author: Fred Frith

• I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

  Author: Megan Fox

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  Author: F. Fitzgerald

• There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

  Author: Albert Finney

• After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.

  Author: Martin Feldstein

• The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

  Author: William Feather

• I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.

  Author: Suzanne Farrell

• Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

  Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

• So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

  Author: Katherine Dunham

• We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

  Author: Patty Duke

• Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

  Author: K. Drexler

• I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

  Author: Rita Dove

• Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

  Author: Christopher Dodd

• Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

  Author: Nathan Deal

• The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

  Author: Sheryl Crow

• He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

  Author: Daniel Craig

• Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

  Author: Doug Coupland

• I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

  Author: Francis Coppola

• Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

  Author: Confucius

• The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.

  Author: Luc Clapier

• Ability without honor is useless.

  Author: Marcus Cicero

• A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

  Author: Winston Churchill

• Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

  Author: Mary Cheney

• If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

  Author: Wilt Chamberlain

• So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

  Author: Vinton Cerf

• This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.

  Author: Paul Cellucci

• You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

  Author: M. Casey

• You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

  Author: Rosalynn Carter

• The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

  Author: Andrew Carnegie

• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

  Author: Thomas Carlyle

• I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

  Author: Harry Caray

• You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

  Author: Jim Capaldi

• Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.

  Author: Solomon Burke

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

  Author: Jack Brymer

• There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

  Author: Paul Bryant

• From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability.

  Author: Craig Bruce

• The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

  Author: Bobby Bonilla

• Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

  Author: Brian Boitano

• I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

  Author: Wade Boggs

• Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

  Author: Ben Bernanke

• My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

  Author: Philip Berger

• I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

  Author: Bo Bennett

• I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

  Author: Gerry Beckley

• The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

  Author: Stephen Bayley

• Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.

  Author: Steve Bartlett

• Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

  Author: William Barclay

• You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

  Author: Iain Banks

• Instinct is untaught ability.

  Author: Alexander Bain

• I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

  Author: Erykah Badu

• I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

  Author: Erykah Badu

• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

  Author: Francis Bacon

• The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

  Author: John Ashcroft

• The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy.

  Author: Thomas Arnold

• The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

  Author: Philip Anderson

• When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

  Author: Brady Anderson

• Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

  Author: George Allen, Sr.

• I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

  Author: Karen Allen

• I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

  Author: Samuel Alito

• There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

  Author: Thomas Aldrich

• The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

  Author: Bhumibol Adulyadej

• Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.

  Author: Gerry Adams

• In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

  Author: Ansel Adams

• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.

  Author: M. Abrams

• Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

  Author: John Abbott

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