Quotes About Ability

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

Every man nurses the secret belief that were he God he could do the job much better.

Talent is something you're born with. It's a gift and a curse, and it's often cause for jealousy from those who are without it.

In the dining hall of the home, Stella had seen so much death, that one Saturday morning she'd been compelled to sink down onto the linoleum floor, overwhelmed not so much by the sorrow of it all, but by the human dignity, the almost supernatural ability to face the abyss and still order scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

Our intelligence may seem to be the flaw in the machine, but strictly speaking the flaw is our inability to use it properly.

AMATEUR, n. A public nuisance who mistakes taste for skill, and confounds his ambition with his ability.

Scientists never study the important things. Like why some animals seem to have evolved the ability to gloat.

Just because a horse can run, or train, does not mean that it can race. It might have the ability to run just as fast as everyone else - or faster - but it can't race, or won't race. There are plenty of horses working at Penn National or Finger Lakes, everyday, putting in workouts that are just as fast as the horses at Belmont. But they can't race; that's why they're at Finger Lakes.

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly.

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

Intelligens är kapaciteten att förvärva kapacitet.

psikoloji profesörü olan Jan Tonnes­vang'?n söyledi?ine göre, herkesin bir "ustal?k" duygusuna bir alanda iyi oldu?unu hissetmeye ihtiyac? var. ?nsan?n temel psikolojik ih­tiyaçlar?ndan biri bu. Bir konuda iyi oldu?unuzu hissetti?inizde ona çok daha kolay odaklanabiliyorsunuz; beceriksiz oldu?unuzu hissetti?inizde ise dikkatiniz da??l?p gidiyor.

to focusing carefully on one thing at a time. As I learned all this, I realized that my desire to absorb a tsunami of information without losing my ability to focus was like my desire to eat at McDonald's every day and stay trim—an impossible dream.

In its purity this life [in the home circle] is the highest, the most exalted that can be thought or dreamed of for the education of our race. It is unconditionally true: where love and the ability to love are found in the home circle there one can confidently predict that the education it affords almost never fails.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.