Quotes on Ability

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.

You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality