Quotes About Ability

After doing a bunch of movies as a stuntman, I realized that being a stuntman, you are in the shadow of the actor, and they don't get to see your true ability, and I wanted people to see that it was really me doing those stunts, and it was really my true abilities.

I think that Mr. Obama is not just inexperienced; he is also hampered by a distinct inner emptiness - not an emptiness that comes from stupidity or a lack of ability but an emptiness that has been actually nurtured and developed as an adaptation to the political world.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions pipeline. Our pipeline of leaks has been increasing exponentially as our profile rises, and our ability to publish is increasing linearly.

Don't be afraid to see the gift and talent you have, because that thing could lead to a substantial career for you. Because we all do something as good or better than most people.

From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really.

Most entrepreneurs think capital is the biggest problem they have - but it's not. You can have all the capital you want, but if the market fit and ability to adjust are not present, your startup will likely not succeed.

Dogs have the same ability and the same social skills to avoid conflicts as wolves have.

I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored

Your gift can make room for you.

Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package

Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.

Improvement in the teaching of science is imperative; for students of latent scientific ability are particularly vulnerable to high school teaching which fails to awaken interest or to provide adequate instruction.

Don't look for a soul mate. Make one -- out of the complex fabric of the human being already with you. Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Wrap me up in the reddest cloak, in that flight of your tendons, and lead me into another kingdom, into the heroic ability to love, into the combination to every safe, into the wild dice you feel in your sad fingers when roses shipwreck next to the bridge of salvation. When there's nothing you can do.

It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility." Why, Gillian, it's that very ability that makes us so superior.

Your ability to commit the EXTRA brings out the extraordinary in you. The world will only pay for that little commitment, even, than the rest of your abilities.

Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your pushed her off a cliff.