Quotes About Ability

It becomes easy, Finbar said. It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.

Can a split quill write fair script? Can a blunt axe cut wood for the fire? Can a cripple please a lady?

We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness—the intellectual ability to do the job—is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.

Even a monkey could shovel up the sand if it just had a little practice. I should be able to do a lot more than that. A man has the obligation to make full use of the abilities he has

The richness of every European language is a richness in ability to describe its own culture, represent its own world. When it ventures to do the same for another culture, however, it betrays its limitations, underdevelopment, semantic weakness.

I was distracted suddenly from these pleasant thoughts by noticing that, like the eyes in certain portraits, Heather's nipples seemed to have the uncanny ability to follow you around the room. This is the kind of observation that once made, cannot be unmade. Unfortunately.

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.

No matter how skillfully a man play the game of life, there is but one test of his ability--did he win?

The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality.

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.