Quotes About Ability

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

Are you choosing to be ethical in your messaging, marketing and ability? Consider that there is a fine line and clear difference between sharing with potential clients what you have the ability do right now and what you envision yourself being able to do for people in the future.

Just because they came through an experience, doesn't mean they have the experience or ability to help someone else.

Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition.

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it." – Chloe Traeger

So matter of fact. So confident. Not cocky, just very sure of his abilities. She wondered what that utter lack of self doubt was like. She'd sure like to know.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup.

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

That was the damnedest thing about these demonic collaborator types. Even though they didn't work out and practice, they still got to run faster than we dedicated roadsters who actually sweated and strained for our ability to haul ass. Jerks.

Doesn't matter where you go in the world—if you're good at your job, people who are good enough at theirs to see it will respect you for it.

It would, Grimm thought, be a horrible surprise to find out, mid-dive, that your ship had suddenly lost the ability to stop diving.

Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.

His mind is strange," came Varg's rumbling voice, "but capable.

That was the damnedest thing about these demonic collaborator types. Even though they didn't work out and practice, they still got to run faster than we dedicated roadsters who actually sweated and strained for our ability to haul ass. Jerks.

In his time, Hornsby was an unbelievable hitter who three times finished with an average of over .400, reaching .424 in 1924, a record still standing. This background has not made him exactly tolerant of the ability of baseball players. To illustrate, we reprint herewith the most glowing report on an individual which Hornsby handed in all season: LOOKS LIKE A MAJOR-LEAGUE PLAYER The name at the top of the sheet said the report was about Mickey Mantle.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language

Yet I had always at some level apprehended, because I was born fearful, that some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.

There was a silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent

Not every hard worker can be a leader