Explore Quotes on Ability

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.

My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only come if there's a change in our societies and our economics and in our politics. I've been lucky in my lifetime to see some of the greatest spectacles that the natural world has to offer. Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy, inhabitable by all species

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life.

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit.

If you touch me, I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how bad ass you really are."

There is only one proof of ability - action.