Quotes About Ability

Looking back, the first symptom was a gradual decrease in his ability to concentrate at work. Naturally curious and active, he noticed an uncharacteristic tendency to procrastinate.

The test of a good theory lies in its ability to explain the past, for only if it does can we trust what it may tell us about the future.

His general shotmaking ability is optimum. He will try anything. "Look at the way he hit that ball, gave it the casual play," Graebner says to himself. "Instead of trying a silly shot and missing it, he tries a silly shot and makes it." If Ashe wins the next point, he will have broken Graebner, and the match will be, in effect, even.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability.

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

While my military experience reinforced in me the strength that I have, it also demonstrated to me that I have the ability and power to make a difference in people's lives.

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience. Elena (Bitten)

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.