Quotes About Ability

So Rwandan history is dangerous. Like all of history, it is a record of successive struggles for power, and to a very large extent power consists in the ability to make others inhabit your story of their reality - even, as is so often the case, when that story is written in their blood.

strictly speaking, the ability to travel through time . . . for instance, she can't go into the future. In a certain sense, she can't go into the past either; what she does, as near as I can comprehend it, is start a counter-process that uncovers the prior stages inherent in configurations of matter. But

but knowing that she could do it wasn't the same as being able to do it just then.

Discipline over ability wins every time.

The cuckold acquires a reputation as easily exploitable once it becomes known that he has been exploited. Women assume that he lacks the ability to prevent other men from encroaching. Perceptions of his desirability on the mating market plummet. All these factors add up to formidable fitness costs of being cuckolded.

CHARLES: I believe that any professional bears the shame of the questionable worth of his ministrations. I know of my racket what you know of yours: that, for the most part, we are paid for the ability to keep a straight face. While accomplishing little or nothing.

The power of the dramatist, and of the political flack therefore, resides in the ability to state the problem.

It is as though when we are in the proximity of the auras of people with certain capacities, some transfer of ability can take place. Simply put, we are either positively or negatively influenced by the company we keep. It is unlikely that we will overcome an inhibition if we choose to be in the company of others who have our same problem.

Since when do politics affect a mammals ability to sustain a flame? That aside, who says a burning mouse can't run a distance of twelve feet?

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of fittingness: that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve it--no matter how small or insignificant both might be--are matched exactly, are fitting. This, Claire argued, is when we become truly human, fully ourselves, beautiful....In Claire's presence, you were not faulty or badly designed, no, not at all. You were the fitting receptacle and instrument of your talents and beliefs and desires.

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

The other cyclists used to take breaks to watch him do it. Lean their bikes against the incline and time him with the second hand of their wristwatches. 62.8 every time. That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

Claire spoke often in her poetry of the idea of 'fittingness': that is, when your chosen pursuit and your ability to achieve it - no matter how small or insignificant both might be - are matched exactly, are fitting.

Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men.

Everybody has a talent, in some form. There isn't anyone on earth who doesn't have something of value to offer.

If these are 'talents' – the ability to sing, or to quickly comprehend and reproduce musical notation – what kind of a thing is 'talent'? A commodity? A gift? A prize? A reward? For what?

Time is a dimension of human understanding, a challenge to our assumptions, imagination and our ability to make and, on occasion, break connections.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

I don't think any of us are above the ability to change football from what it is.

IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability.

I would say my accuracy is probably the best thing that I can do.

As far as being accurate goes, I think you either are or you aren't. I don't think you can really become accurate.