Ability Quotes - page 4

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations. View quote
Margaret Drabble
It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps. View quote
Benjamin Graham
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. View quote
Richard Pryor
In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality. View quote
Mukesh Ambani
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself. View quote
Irwin Shaw
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power. (John Cheever)
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. View quote
Linus Torvalds
I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. View quote
LeBron James
For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it. View quote
John Steinbeck
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective. View quote
Keanu Reeves
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them. View quote
Peter Senge
God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own. View quote
Anselm of Canterbury
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask. View quote
Jim Morrison
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. View quote
Confucius
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. View quote
Confucius
That which we persist in doing becomes easier not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. View quote
Keith Haring
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. View quote
Charles Buxton
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer