Quotes About Ability

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn't that apply to all of us?

The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

We do know, however, that these differences—really dfferences in style rather than ability—are not handicaps or disabilities (unlike such barriers to learning as poor vision, mild brain damage, emotional disturbance or orthopedic handicap).

Out of my lean and low abilityI'll lend you something.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence.

God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

We cannot all be masters.

Before, people prized the ability to divine nature's energy and use it. Today, we prize the ability to defy nature's energy and overcome it.

Here must thou be, O man, Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here — Here keepest thou thy individual state: No other can divide with thee this work, No secondary hand can intervene To fashion this ability. 'Tis thine, The prime and vital principle is thine In the recesses of thy nature, far From any reach of outward fellowship, Else 'tis not thine at all.

A poet does not see or hear or feel things that others do not see or hear or feel. What makes a person a poet is the ability to recall what she has felt and seen and heard. And to relive it and describe it in such a way that others can then see and feel and hear again what they may have missed.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

The best musicians know this music isn't about "schools" at all. Like my father says, "There's only one school, the school of 'Can you play?

The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

When you lost your voice, you lost the ability to make sense of yourself. But don't worry. You'll be staying right here. You'll live among the fading voices trapped in these typewriters, and I'll be here with you, giving you instructions. Nothing too difficult.

Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired ability to formulate the questions.

Like many very rich people, Ford did not have to sell himself; Iacocca knew no other way. "He had a lot of ability," Ford later said of Iacocca. "Unfortunately his ability lies ninety-nine percent in sales. But it isn't only in selling cars—it's selling everything.

Regardless of whether a child seems to be exceptional, mediocre, or even awful at any particular skill at a particular point in time, the potential exists for that

She really should be careful about imputing sordid motives to the First Lord. Not because she doubted that he had them, but because not even Sir Edward Janacek could have only sordid motivations. That would have completely devalued his ability to do such things out of simple stupidity, instead of calculation.

Love is the conversation between possible, searing disappointment and a profoundly imagined sense of arrival and fulfillment; how we shape that conversation is the touchstone of our ability to love in the real inhabited world.

I call it Dante's Syndrome," John said. I had never heard him call it any such thing. "Meaning I think Dave and I gained the ability to peer into Hell. Only it turns out Hell is right here, it's all through us and around us and in us like the microbes that swarm through your lungs and guts and veins. Hey, look! An owl!" We all looked. It was an owl, all right.

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

It's very easy to blame others, but very difficult to prove your ability.