300 Quotes on Ability

• Stars shine brightest when surrounded by darkness.

  Author: Maya Patel

• Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

  Author: Zig Ziglar

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

  Author: Xun Zi

• Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

  Author: Michael Zaslow

• 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

• The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• 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

• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  Author: Orville Wright

• Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• 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

• A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

  Author: Bob Woodward

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

  Author: John Wooden

• Ability is a poor man's wealth.

  Author: John Wooden

• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

  Author: Stevie Wonder

• Technically you need the extra dimensions. At first people didn't like them too much, but they've got a big benefit, which is that the ability of string theory to describe all the elementary particles and their forces along with gravity depends on using the extra dimensions.

  Author: Edward Witten

• 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

• There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• 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

• A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

  Author: Ricky Williams

• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

  Author: George Will

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

  Author: Dominique Wilkins

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• 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

• A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

  Author: Frank Whittle

• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

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

  Author: Ron White

• Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

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

  Author: Rebecca West

• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  Author: Randy West

• What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

  Author: Jack Welch

• I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• 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

• I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

  Author: Roger Waters

• The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

  Author: Jim Walton

• 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

• My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

  Author: Herschel Walker

• Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

  Author: Denis Waitley

• The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

  Author: Jane Wagner

• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

  Author: William Vickrey

• I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

  Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

• 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

• I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

  Author: Johnny Unitas

• Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Author: Samuel Ullman

• 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.

  Author: Bob Uecker

• The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

  Author: Mo Udall

• 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

• I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

  Author: Fred Turner

• Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

  Author: Sophie Tucker

• 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.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

  Author: Robin Trower

• Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

  Author: Robin Trower

• The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

  Author: Robin Trower

• Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

  Author: Linus Torvalds

• Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

  Author: Bill Toomey

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

  Author: Bill Toomey

• The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

  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

• The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• 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

• Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• 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

• There has been no appreciable improvement in our country's ability to produce the kind of talent we need in this space. There have been some small initiatives around the country that have been noteworthy.

  Author: John Thompson

• Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• 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

• You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

  Author: Sonny Terry

• As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• If you've been playing for a few years, especially in a group context, you'll see if you have the ability or the passion to want to carry on. It's something that you have to be dedicated to and you've got to love, no matter what happens.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• 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

• Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

  Author: Shinichi Suzuki

• Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

  Author: William Sumner

• 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

• Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• 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

• Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

  Author: Neal Stephenson

• Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• 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

• Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  Author: Sammy Sosa

• In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.

  Author: Brett Somers

• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  Author: Tony Snow

• 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

• We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

  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

• Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

  Author: Roy Smith

• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  Author: Michael Simpson

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

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

  Author: Herbert Simon

• Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

  Author: Clifford Simak

• I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.

  Author: Don Shula

• Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• 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

• It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

  Author: Robert Shea

• The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

  Author: Robert Shea

• An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• 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

• The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

  Author: Anton Seidl

• People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

  Author: W. Sebald

• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

  Author: Walter Scott

• I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

  Author: Charles Schwab

• I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

  Author: Charles Schulz

• 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

• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness.

  Author: Graeme Saux

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

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.

  Author: Jose Santos

• Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

  Author: Nolan Ryan

• Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off."

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• 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

• We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

  Author: David Rose

• Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

  Author: Ned Rorem

• If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

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

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

• We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

  Author: Franklin Roosevelt

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

  Author: Jim Rohn

• The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• 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

• The results of this survey are shocking and should be a wake-up call to men and women that drinking and smoking too much not only gives you a bad headache in the morning but can affect your ability to start a family.

  Author: Ann Robinson

• Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

  Author: Cavett Robert

• 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.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• All I had was natural ability.

  Author: Branch Rickey

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  Author: Ralph Richardson

• God gives us the ability, but rock 'n' roll was created by men.

  Author: Little Richard

• At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

  Author: Robert Reich

• Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• 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

• If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

  Author: Robert Quillen

• If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

  Author: Dennis Quaid

• I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

  Author: Joseph Pulitzer

• 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

• It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

  Author: Kyle Pruett

• Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

  Author: Alan Price

• I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

  Author: J. Powers

• 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

• The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

  Author: Michael Porter

• 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

• Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

  Author: Pete Pont

• The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

  Author: Channing Pollock

• 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

• I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

  Author: John Poindexter

• Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

  Author: Titus Plautus

• It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

  Author: Robert Plant

• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Author: Rick Pitino

• So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

  Author: Kenneth Pike

• At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.

  Author: Paul Pierce

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

  Author: Wendell Phillips

• Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

  Author: Fred Perry

• That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

  Author: Itzhak Perlman

• My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

  Author: Sonny Perdue

• 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

• But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

  Author: Chris Patten

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

  Author: Vance Packard

• Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

  Author: Major Owens

• While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

  Author: Bill Owens

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

  Author: Ovid

• I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  Author: Barbara Olson

• Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

  Author: Sandra O'Connor

• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

  Author: Flannery O'Connor

• 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

• The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question.

  Author: Michael Novak

• It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.

  Author: Chuck Norris

• 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

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  Author: Earl Nightingale

• My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

  Author: Jack Nicklaus

• 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

• We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

  Author: Bill Nelson

• 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

• Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

  Author: Robert Musil

• 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 ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• 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

• Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school.

  Author: Gwen Moore

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

  Author: Colin Mochrie

• This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

  Author: Joni Mitchell

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

  Author: Gary Miller

• Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

  Author: Ed Miliband

• I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

  Author: Tiffeny Milbrett

• I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

  Author: Michael Michele

• In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

  Author: Lennart Meri

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

  Author: Golda Meir

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  Author: Malcolm Mclaren

• Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

  Author: Martin McGuinness

• Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

  Author: Bryant McGill

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

  Author: Bryant McGill

• Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.

  Author: Bryant McGill

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

  Author: Will McDonough

• When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

  Author: Bill McCartney

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

  Author: Joyce Maynard

• God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

  Author: Neal Maxwell

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

  Author: W. Maugham

• We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.

  Author: Kathy Mattea

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

  Author: Marlee Matlin

• Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

  Author: Mary Masterson

• The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

  Author: Abraham Maslow

• 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.

  Author: Karl Marx

• In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

  Author: Karl Marx

• 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

• When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

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

  Author: Russell Mark

• No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

  Author: Orison Marden

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

  Author: Orison Marden

• I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

  Author: Mickey Mantle

• 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

• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

  Author: Marya Mannes

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

  Author: Steve Mann

• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  Author: Barry Mann

• Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

  Author: Wilma Mankiller

• 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 wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

  Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

• Women are a little more assertive in terms of our ability to express our feelings when we fall in love.

  Author: Alicia Machado

• I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.

  Author: Andie MacDowell

• Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.

  Author: Charles Luckman

• 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

• Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

  Author: Lawrence Lovasik

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

  Author: Joe Louis

• Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

  Author: Julie London

• 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

• Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

  Author: Lucy Liu

• I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

  Author: Astrid Lindgren

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

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• Our only security is our ability to change.

  Author: John Lilly

• Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

  Author: Alphonsus Liguori

• The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

  Author: Georg Lichtenberg

• 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

• A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

  Author: Robert Ley

• Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.

  Author: Arthur Levitt

• So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• 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

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

  Author: Ernest Lawrence

• People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

  Author: Frank Lautenberg

• I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

  Author: James Laughlin

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