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Quotes About Ability

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.
~ Herbie Hancock
I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.
~ Marisa Miller
The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.
~ DJ Ashba
There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.
~ Kim Gordon
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
~ Noel Gallagher
I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.
~ Glen Hansard
I must play the instrument I've got.
~ Saul Bellow
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
~ Rudolf Nureyev
Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.
~ Stewart Brand
Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves
~ George Soros
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
~ Plato
One cannot inherit a talent for the violin - there are no violins in nature. Instead, one must be motivated, able to benefit from practice, and persevering.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
~ Tennessee Williams
The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.
~ James T. Hubbell
We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.
~ Zoe Kazan
You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.
~ J.R. Rim
A healer's power stems not from any special ability, but from maintaining the courage and awareness to embody and express the universal healing power that every human being naturally possesses.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job
~ Anders Ericsson
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
~ Gerry Adams
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
~ Natalie Portman
Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.
~ Herbert Hoover
No matter what level of your ability you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
~ James McCay