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Quotes About Ability

It certainly helps that I'm quite a relaxed guy and I take things in my stride, and if you hear the odd murmur of criticism, you just stay focused on your job and doing what you're working hard to do. I've always been confident in my own ability, and that's just as important.
~ David de Gea
My aim for my dancing and fitness is to achieve flexibility in those disciplines so I am spending time to make sure I stretch after each workout or dancing session I do to give me further strength and ability.
~ A. J. Pritchard
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
~ Vaclav Havel
I'm sure Jofra Archer will be loving heading into his first World Cup. He is in the dressing room as he comes across on the field - laidback and very confident in his ability.
~ Jos Buttler
It's the inability to handle the pressure that makes a big difference between the Italian players and the England players when it comes to the World Cup stage.
~ Gianluca Vialli
When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world. An important component of my answer involves my assessment of the candidate's willingness and ability to protect Israel's security, since I strongly believe that a strong Israel serves the interests of the United States and of world peace.
~ Alan Dershowitz
Virat Kohli has so far shown that he has more ability and talent than anybody else, and if he can play till 32 or 34 with same fitness and without injuries, he will come to a point where not even Vivian Richards neither Sachin Tendulkar had such a record.
~ Kapil Dev
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
~ Brian Tracy
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
~ Yvonne De Carlo
My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore.
~ Virat Kohli
I am first, and foremost, an actor. That's what I am. To me, a song is a mini-drama. My musical ability informs the actor as well because it gives me a sense of timing that non-musicians don't have. So, one hand washes the other.
~ Theodore Bikel
I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
~ Garth Risk Hallberg
I never expected to do what I can, but with my coaching staff and my training and coming to terms with my own ability and my own talent and realizing the potential that there is, I've decided that I want to make a run for it. I'm training, and I'm fighting for a title.
~ Robert Whittaker
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
~ David Rudisha
Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
~ Neal Stephenson
'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
~ Yelawolf
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
~ Rachel Corrie
I can snap my toes. Everyone keeps asking me this, but I know it's kind of weird, but I think it's fun that I can snap my toes.
~ Mirai Nagasu
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
~ Xun Kuang
In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.
~ Brett Somers
We endorse the manmade competition between ourselves that disunites us, striping us of our true ability. We don't believe we can govern better, and until we believe this, we never will. It's time for a new society.
~ Sarah Hall
Great talents encourage great incapacities, but maintaining an inability to cook an egg or drive a car won't make you into a genius.
~ Sarah Manguso