Quotes About Ability

However, he didn't have a high opinion of the average man's ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn't fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few could shoot well, and even fewer had any mind for strategy.

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

The constitution of our country says that all men are created equal, but it's a lie. I'll never be able to make a jump shot like Magic Johnson, or drive a car like Mario Andretti, or paint like Picasso. We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it. - A Lick of Frost

Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead? Magnus asked. Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night? I asked. Magnus smiled. Wrong kind of fairie.

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Strong Phillip, able to lift overweight nymphomaniacs with both hands. Harvey

We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.

Your ability to show discretion defines your likeliness to contribute to a wholesome performance.

I have always consoled myself that he such as I who is not a genius, can still achieve much that is useful when he does his work right and chooses his work to suit his talents.

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

The strength of the democratic constitutional state lies precisely in its ability to close the holes social integration through the political participation of its citizens.

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?

If there is anything a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance

Power is tempting, and in a sense no power is greater than the ability to take someone's life.

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The value of a novel is not limited to its depiction of emotions and people akin to those in our own life; it stretches to an ability to describe these far better than we would have been able, to put a finger on perceptions that we recognize as our own, but could not have formulated on our own.