Quotes About Ability

I had done my best, and that my lack of experience, not my lack of ability, was the reason for the failure.

Those two priceless abilities: first, the ability to think. Second, the ability to do things in the order of their importance.

investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering – to personality and the ability to lead people.

The average person," said Samuel Vauclain, then president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, "can be led readily if you have his or her respect and if you show that you respect that person for some kind of ability." In short, if you want to improve a person in a certain aspect, act as though that particular trait were already one of his or her outstanding characteristics.

liberal with your encouragement, make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it—and he will practice until the dawn comes in the window in order to excel.

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

The thing that Von Neumann had, which I've noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that's important.

In these ways, your son's economic health can dictate his ability to be loved, which makes his economic health inseparable from his mental health, and therefore his physical health. And few things affect his economic health more than his education.

To me, the word responsibility means "responding with ability." It doesn't mean responding with disability, otherwise the word would be respondisability. No, it is responsibility: I have the ability to respond. I can respond with ability.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

It's about the realization of talent and potential, and the feeling that you are able to make the most of your abilities in life.

The first basis for this statement is that I know you have reached the second chapter of a nonfiction book on a public policy issue, which means you are probably well above average in academic ability—not because getting to the second chapter of this book requires that you be especially bright, but because people with below-average academic ability hardly ever choose to read books like this.

People are unequal in the abilities that lead to economic success in life. To the extent that inequality of wealth is grounded in the way people freely choose to conduct their lives, I do not find it troubling. People

Page 67: For jobs that require a college degree, race differences in cognitive ability in the workplace should be minimized by the process of obtaining that college degree. But it hasn't worked that way since at least the 1970s. Colleges have been complicit in transmitting the mean IQ differences by race in the general population not only through the college pipeline but through the graduate-education pipeline as well.

Now I was surprised and light-headed, like a domestic fowl that finds itself able to fly over a low fence in a moment of terror.

I CAN'T FORGET. I'M INCAPABLE. THAT MUST BE NICE, BEING ABLE TO FORGET. IS IT NICE?

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

As an answer on any test, the best of you will always be better than the least of you.

Tae kwon do required focus, strength, and endurance, but mostly it required the ability to deal with looking like an ass in public.