Quotes About Ability

You know the secret to dunking a ball? Big hands. You've got to be able to palm it, and I couldn't.

If I could palm a ball I probably could have more dunks than I have in my career, but I still can get the job done.

I can parallel park pretty well - I'm a great driver.

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

I've always been partial to good players. If someone is a good player I'm interested.

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

I was particularly good at math and science.

As a middle-order batsman, a lot of times you have to trust your ability to play those big shots under pressure. It is also important to trust your partner at that time.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

You're only as good as your last pass.

Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

I'd say my main quality is keeping the ball and my passing.

Your visibility is more important than your ability.

Visibility gets prospects in the door. Ability keeps them with you for many years.

His power is accessible.

Gregory of Nazianus taught around AD 370: "The responsibility of pastoral office is great indeed, and no one ought to enter who has not deeply examined motive and ability, who has not struggled against call in the face of godly demands of office and the frailty of mere humanity.

I think the primary limitation on software is not the speed of computers but our ability to get our heads around what it's supposed to do.

The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.

Praising ability alone reduces persistence, while praising effort or the processes a person goes through to learn leads to growth mind-set behaviors. Dweck has found this to apply regardless of age.

As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.

Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the act of construction. At the point in time concrete materials are assembled and erected, the architecture we have been looking for becomes part of the real world.

Therein lies the true essence of Marxism. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs' only ever works with a gun in your hand. How