Ability Quotes - page 15

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you. (Nicky Gumbel)
The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. View quote
Aubrey de Grey
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. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment. View quote
Rebecca Wells
Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age. View quote
Andrew Weil
American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally. View quote
Andrew Weil
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort. View quote
Richard Yates
Industry was regarded entirely instrumentally by party, state and military, in terms of its ability to provide the sinews of war... The business community was characterized by a defensive opportunism in the face of state power. View quote
Richard Overy
Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving. (Richard Wiseman)
We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses. View quote
Robin McKinley
The story is always better than your ability to write it. View quote
Robin McKinley
The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent. View quote
Robert Greene
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. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted. View quote
Robert James Waller
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. View quote
Robert Carlyle
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. View quote
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. View quote
Robert Shea
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. View quote
Robert J. Shiller
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it. (Robert H. Schuller)
Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it. View quote
Simon Sinek
While any situation could be used as an image of any other, no thing could be an image of another-especially two things as complicated as two people. And to use them as such was to abuse them and delude oneself-that it was the coherence and ability of things (especially people) to be their unique and individual selves that allowed the malleability and richness of images to occur at all. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation. View quote
Cinda Williams Chima
life is not a race, but a shot on target: what counts is not the saving of time, but the ability to find a centre. View quote
Susanna Tamaro