Ability Quotes - page 96

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions. Page 28. (David Mamet)
I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures. View quote
Chris Cornell
When the women of the country come in and sit with you, though there may be but very few in the next few years, I pledge you that you will get ability, you will get integrity of purpose, you will get exalted patriotism, and you will get unstinted usefulness. View quote
Rebecca Latimer Felton
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act. View quote
Ann Druyan
Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself. View quote
Starhawk
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. View quote
John Hancock
I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title. View quote
Joe Louis
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Government alone, in all man's inventions, is capable of independent life. Government alone, like Mrs. Shelley's terrifying creation of the monster born in Frankenstein's mind, has the power and the ability to turn upon its creators and destroy them. View quote
Robert LeFevre
Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable. (Theodore Zeldin)
There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability. View quote
Bear Bryant
I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. View quote
Elton John
Nobody told me when to retire. Sourav (Ganguly) took his decision, I took my own decision, there was no pressure. Let`s leave it to the individuals. Criticism is fine but don`t do it without reason. Don`t start questioning the ability of the players. There is no retirement scheme, that`s rubbish. View quote
Anil Kumble
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands. View quote
Anna Deavere Smith
Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it. View quote
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
We are in rapid transition today to a new world which threatens to be dominated by technological advance. In that new World. (1) man will have learned so much about nature's store of energy and its release that he will have the ability to virtually destroy civilization; (2) production, communication and transportation will all be "automatic" --these operations of man's material world will have become so vast and complex that they will have to proceed with a minimum of participation by man, his muscles, brains and senses; and (3) man will conquer space. View quote
Simon Ramo
I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance. View quote
Ellen G. White
The ability of the countries within the region to cooperate and establish good-neighborly relations ... will be an important criterion for evaluating their prospects of full integration with the European Union. (Martti Ahtisaari)
Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead? View quote
Clifford D. Simak
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. View quote
Jeff Koons
The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from. View quote
Joss Whedon
Genius is the ability to look at things simply. View quote
E. Lee Spence