Quotes About Ability

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. (Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)

The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed to call into question one's own ability to turn lead into gold. (Enoch in Boston, 1713)

Even if you're bad at math, you're probably much better at it than the smartest chimpanzee, whose genetic identity varies in only trifling ways from ours.

We left a bicycle at the station this morning. If you do the right thing by me I won't be able to ride it, but it's there, anyway.

If they lacked the opportunity, the strength of their sprit would have been sapped; if they had lacked ability, the opportunity would have been wasted.

If his ministers are capable and loyal, people will always reckon a ruler astute, because he was able to recognize their ability and command their loyalty. When they are not, people will always have reason to criticize, because the first mistake the ruler made was in his choice of ministers. Everyone

Although he had certain talents as a musician and a composer, he lacked the charisma or showmanship or whatever it was that made a performer stand out

Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.

Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

I'm not musically inclined.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

One of the biggest misconceptions about homeschooling, and the ones my friends seemed most concerned about, is that children won't socialise and will have a limited ability to communicate when they get older. I can honestly say this is a myth.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.