Quotes About Ability

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

I think we've debunked the myth of talent. It doesn't appear that there's anything like a music gene or center in the brain that Stevie Wonder has that nobody else has.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

It's time to stop pretending negative rates have any redeemable value - besides the ability to stimulate the market for physical safes.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

There's quite a bit of evidence that even professionals don't show any ability to pick stocks or to predict market rollbacks. Most of the people we identify as skilled based on returns have probably just been lucky.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

I focus on what I can do in this game. I don't have speed. I'm not a guy who can have a stolen base. I wish I could, but I can't.

Government has a limited amount of resources and a limited amount of ability to stop things that are market driven.

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.

I want to work with great directors and tell great stories - storytelling is the one great love of my life, and it means so much, and we have the ability to change the world by telling stories, and I want to keep doing that.

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

H. P. Lovecraft wrote that the most merciful thing about the human mind is its inability to correlate all its contents,

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kind of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue—but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect.

Ignore the unfairness—there is no fair. Play the hand that you're dealt to the best of your ability. People are highly consistent, so you will eventually get what you deserve and so will they. In the end, everyone gets the same judgment: death.

Buffett told him, "Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen.

I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.

Wiccans understand magic as a natural process. It is the ability to change one's consciousness—one's frame of mind.

If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever