Quotes About Ability

Talent attracts opportunity.

when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. Memory

Baumeister's group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion. In

Baumeister's group has repeatedly found that an effort of will or self-control is tiring; if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed. Memory function is an attribute of System 1. However

Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Meehl discovered that clinicians and other professionals are distressingly weak in what they often see as their unique strength: the ability to integrate information.

The increase in man's power over his environment has not been accompanied by a concomitant improvement of his ability to make rational use of that power

Du kannst was man können muss, aber du bist leer.

The fact is that human beings come into the world with a passion for control, they go out of the world the same way, and research suggests that if they lose their ability to control things at any point between their entrance and their exit, they become unhappy, helpless, hopeless and depressed.

Awareness is good, but without skills and ability tied to that awareness, all you have is anxiety. —Tony Blauer

Awareness is good, but without skills and ability tied to that awareness, all you have is anxiety.

Gunpowder's superior noise, its superior posturing ability, made it ascendant on the battlefield.

Skills which are so great as to amaze those of lesser talents are always mistrusted. Thus

Your unique passion is a resource that helps fuel your ability to add value to your world.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.

Whomever survived and made it back to the Farm would do so only through the loving grace of Almighty God and their ability to shoot first, shoot fastest, and shoot straightest.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.

Having a little talent as a writer is like having a little talent as a brain surgeon.