Quotes About Ability

They don't, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don't need to exercise your power.

The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.

There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. In fact it is considered opinion of some of his tutors that he is incapable even of achieving level zero, which most normal people are born at; to put it another way, it has been suggested that when Rincewind dies the average occult ability of the human race will actually go up by a fraction.

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

Our skills, you will find, could be our jailers.

you carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow and the light are equal: you have an ability, you also have the negation of this ability. But, if you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure that somewhere in you there is a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

I think the only thing you should be judged on is your performance in whatever field you happen to be in.

We should let people elect judges based on their experience and ability to do the job, not which party they pick.

People are born with the ability to make judgments. And they can't help but use the information they have to divine something about the world they're in. Making categorical judgments, in large, helps our society.

I don't have any juggling or fire-eating skills.

People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small scale, depending on their ability. Those who can do a lot because of their position and potential should jump right in there.

I can jump really high, yeah. I'm proud of that. I'll take it.

I'm able to run and jump and do all the things I can do. I'm blessed.

I've never been the type that's been highly athletically talented or can jump that high. I'm a guy who's 6-2.

I think I have just as much talent as anybody when it comes to the 100 or 200.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.

I didn't set out to write. It was just something I always could do. Teachers would say, 'you really have this gift,' but I just didn't care.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

I'm not a keeper who hasn't shown his ability.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

I'd like to think there's a lot more to my game than just free kicks.