Ability Quotes - page 16

I found by deeper breathing, going into the cold, thinking about it, dealing with it; getting the conviction that my ability to breathe deeper is making connections with my body. (Wim Hof)
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
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. View quote
Howard Gardner
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability. View quote
Helen Fisher
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. View quote
Herbie Hancock
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. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
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. View quote
Astrid Lindgren
When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do. View quote
Barbara Coloroso
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you. View quote
Bob Proctor
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice. (Brian Herbert)
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive. View quote
Bernie Siegel
You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it. View quote
Eileen Caddy
I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather. View quote
Graham Swift
For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces. View quote
Osamu Dazai
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. View quote
Osamu Dazai
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful. View quote
Dave Ramsey
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. (David Duchovny)
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met. View quote
David Levithan
barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share. View quote
David Levithan
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting. View quote
Albert Ellis
I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer. View quote
Alex Flinn