Quotes About Ability

Messi has all the conditions to be the best.

I realized that acting was the thing I was still maybe the best at. Of the things I felt like I was good at, that was the thing that came the most naturally to me.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you can trust. But there were no questions on my ability or character.

That boy could throw a ball through a car wash and not get it wet. (on Warren Moon)

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

North Korea has the same ability to launch a nuclear strike against America as I do. It's like walking through a parking lot and getting barked at by a chihuahua locked in a car.

I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!

You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.

You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Measuring requires, first and foremost, analytical ability. But it also demands that measurement be used to make self-control possible, rather than abused to control people from the outside and above—that is, to dominate them.

A person's way of performing can be slightly modified, but it is unlikely to be completely changed—and certainly not easily. Just as people achieve results by doing what they are good at, they also achieve results by working in ways that they best perform. A few common personality traits usually determine how a person performs.

And productivity for the knowledge worker means the ability to get the right things done. It means effectiveness.

Now the effectiveness of the individual depends increasingly on his or her ability to be effective in an organization, to be effective as an executive.

from each according to his ability to each according to his need"

There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England's Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast as he could look at the pages. While in the White House, President Theodore Roosevelt used to read a book every day before breakfast, and he occasionally read three a day. John F. Kennedy was well known for being able to read 1,200 words per minute.