Quotes on Ability

Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

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.