Quotes on Ability

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, enthusiasm over lethargy, love over hate. This is our true freedom. Whatever life may throw at us, we have the freedom and ability to choose our attitude. And I believe it is in those moments of choice that we manifest our destiny.

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change. They dance for joy around the First Light, look continuously towards Him and are enlightened directly by Him, as they tirelessly sing the praises of the Fount of light and, being ministers of light, transmit illuminating grace to those lower beings who are being enlightened.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

To be creative, a person has to internalize the entire system that makes creativity possible. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.