Ability Quotes - page 13

If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications. (Hannah Arendt)
Creating everlasting works is possible only being ducked in Verity; and gaining verity is possible only from the god. The one who given the ability for creation to, it is given the ability for immortality to. This ability is the substance not only of the human beings, but it can be seen in animals; birds and insects. View quote
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press. View quote
Lewis H. Lapham
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words aero, meaning ability to, and bics, meaning withstand tremendous boredom. View quote
Dave Barry
When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe. View quote
Richard Baxter
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability. View quote
Neal A. Maxwell
Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman - who is only a mere superhero. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The link between a society, whether it be made up of communities or individuals, and a state is this: Power rests on the ability to satisfy human needs. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself. (Alan Turing)
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
Those who can create wealth - and know that they can - are able to dictate their own terms. Wealth is a means to happiness, but it is not the main one. What most people want is control over their lives. They want the ability to choose how they live: what work they do, the way they interact with friends and colleagues, the quality of their personal relationships, the way they view themselves. View quote
Richard Koch
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. View quote
Tony Snow
Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence. View quote
Robert Orben
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. View quote
Walter Scott
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. View quote
Frank Herbert
If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things. View quote
Jaggi Vasudev
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Social unrest and a deepening sense of unfairness are dangers to our national life which we must minimize by rigorous methods. People know that vast personal incomes come not only through the effort or ability or luck of those who receive them, but also because of the opportunities for advantage which Government itself contributes. Therefore, the duty rests upon the Government to restrict such incomes by very high taxes. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. View quote
Winston Churchill
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half. View quote
Winston Churchill
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. View quote
Aldous Huxley