Ability Quotes - page 19

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes. (Nicholas A. Christakis)
A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings. View quote
Jennifer Coolidge
I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person. View quote
Katherine Dunham
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people. View quote
James C. Collins
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful. View quote
Neil LaBute
She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it. View quote
Gregory Maguire
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!' View quote
Demetri Martin
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. View quote
Mickey Mantle
Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body. (Nathan Deal)
My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite. View quote
Natsuo Kirino
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. View quote
Sandra Day O'Connor
We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy. View quote
Patty Duke
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. View quote
Mike Pence
Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'And then you kissed her? You shouldn't have done that. I'm sure you meant well, but kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star. View quote
Zac Posen
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. View quote
Rosalynn Carter
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. View quote
Rosalynn Carter
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. View quote
Paul Rand
I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life. (Anne Sweeney)
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. View quote
Donna Summer
Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends. View quote
Sophie Tucker
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. View quote
Edward Thorndike
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. View quote
Dennis Weaver