Ability Quotes - page 27

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet. (Steven Rattner)
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes. View quote
Suzanne Farrell
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. View quote
Sammy Sosa
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. View quote
Samuel Ullman
There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people. View quote
Samuel Wilson
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability. View quote
Sargent Shriver
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer. View quote
Teresa Wright
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard. View quote
Thomas G. Stemberg
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human. View quote
Thomas Jane
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings. View quote
Victor Garber
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. (Virginia Gildersleeve)
I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle. View quote
Wade Boggs
The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges. View quote
Walter Annenberg
I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that. View quote
Walton Goggins
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. View quote
Whitney M. Young
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited. View quote
Willard Libby
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that. View quote
Zhang Ziyi
I do not want to see the allies defeated. But I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed. Englishmen are showing the strength that Empire builders must have. I expect them to rise much higher than they seem to be doing. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled. View quote
Fred Astaire
Georg Cantor claimed the essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. But mathematicians do not pick problems from thin air for the pleasure of solving them. To the contrary, a mark of greatness resides in the ability to identify the most interesting problems in the framework of what is already known. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. (Buckminster Fuller)
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery. View quote
Charles Darwin
Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future. But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability; and we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system - with all these exalted powers - Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. View quote
Charles Darwin
Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn. View quote
Charlie Sheen
But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. View quote
Sidney Poitier