Ability Quotes - page 100

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly. (Julian Assange)
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. View quote
LeBron James
I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates. View quote
LeBron James
The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm. View quote
Alexander Woollcott
I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life. View quote
Mark Zuckerberg
What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things. View quote
Václav Havel
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. View quote
Václav Havel
When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things. View quote
Václav Havel
As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy. View quote
David Cross
I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances. View quote
Anne Hathaway
Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer. (Bill Walton)
The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. View quote
Bill Parcells
I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. View quote
Bruce Jenner
Jesus told His followers that when they were gathered in that upper room in Jerusalem the Holy Spirit would descend upon them with power; and they were transformed from ignorant men into linguists of unbelievable ability. View quote
Charles Fillmore
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war. View quote
David Lange
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. View quote
Charles B. Rangel
The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability. View quote
José Saramago
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Doctors, chess grand masters and football quarterbacks share a trait: the ability to recognize patterns and learn from them. A doctor can connect symptoms to causes and use that to make a diagnosis and offer a prescription. Top quarterbacks and grand masters can sense the shape of unfolding play, and profit from that knowledge. Great managers are also skilled at pattern recognition. Every industry is reshaped by patterns of strategic change that can dramatically shift profit and power. (Adrian Slywotzky)
Ustad Bismillah Khan's specialization lies in his ability to produce intricate sound patterns on the Shehnai, which was hitherto, considered impossible on this instrument. View quote
Bismillah Khan
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. View quote
Phil Ochs
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus. View quote
Rick Warren
I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions. View quote
António Damásio