Quotes About Ability

El esfuerzo es para aquellos que no tienen la capacidad. La gente con mentalidad fija nos dice: «Si tienes que trabajar mucho, será que no se te da bien», y añade: «Los verdaderos genios no necesitan esforzarse».

Performance cannot be based on one assessment. You cannot determine the slope of a line given only one point, as there is no line to begin with. A single point in time does not show trends, improvement, lack of effort, or mathematical ability….

They may appreciate endowment, but they admire effort, for no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Here's what this means: Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training. This is so important, because many, many people with the fixed mindset think that someone's early performance tells you all you need to know about their talent and their future.

In addition, the child with poor tactile awareness in his mouth, lips, tongue, and jaw may have a sensory-based motor problem called oral apraxia, which affects his ability to produce and sequence sounds necessary for speech.

separates his behavior from his identity, and that ability is what ultimately allows people to live with behavior they now condemn.

Everyone has expectations. They are the soul of the human condition, for they reflect the human ability to anticipate the future, to dream, and to hope. The complementary human ability is to bring those expectations into resolution with reality, what folks used to call maturity.

Cornered, she seemed to possess no mechanism for behaving well. By the same token, when not trapped or obliged to confront people or situations that upset her, she had a particular ability to think about them with apparently genuine pleasure. Martha

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

You can only do what you're capable of at the time.

Pissing is the least of my talents. You ought to see me shit

Why give a horse to a man who cannot ride?

A sword is only as good as the man who wields it.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

How I envy you your ability to be inarticulate in the face of Fate.

Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin.

What a man accomplishes in a day depends upon the way in which he approaches his tasks. When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.