Quotes About Ability

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.

You can never have enough talent.

I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has to use later directly in life. The demands of life are much too manifold to let such a specialized training in school appear possible [...] The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgement should always be placed foremost.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

We're all a genius, but If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

That which had made Helmholtz so uncomfortably aware of being himself and all alone was too much ability.

Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.

Unlearned language?" "There's a technical term for it," she said. "Xenoglossy. It's the ability to speak a language you've never learned. Some people appear to do so under hypnosis; they're put into a trance and they start talking as another personality. It's regression.

Mankind will not be perfect until it can create and destroy like God. It can already destroy: that's half the battle.

The acid test of a strength? The ability is a strength only if you can fathom yourself doing it repeatedly, happily, and successfully.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people—I categorize them as life's losers—who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I'm concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn't be fighting me, they'd be doing something constructive themselves.

We can assess our practice by asking only whether Yoga practice is building our integrity as a human being and helping us live as an expression of our most noble virtues. Whether our practice strengthens our ability to be present with all that we experience is the only criteria we need for what we do or don't do on the mat.

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

forgiveness, true forgiveness, is about this ability to move beyond your personal hurt and do the right thing, even if it does not directly benefit you.

To be asked by her to do something filled him with pleasurable strength, as if she called all his powers into play. He felt able to move heaven and earth, he said to himself. She was his enthusiasm.

Luck is the last refuge of the incompetent,

My level of skill? My imagination may be prodigious, but that's a lot to ask of it," he said with a twinkle in his eye.

human ability the world had ever seen, what he affectionately called his Brain Trust, a group so important he insisted these words be capitalized.

Allusion is lovely, and experience with other forms of writing brings the ability to use that device pervasively. This in turn sets high expectations for the reader- in that you are expecting him to pick up on it- and this is a way of respecting your readers. And when you respect your readers, they will come to respect you.

Football was never my life. The guys [and] the relationships were my life. I have an ability to relate to damn near everybody.