Quotes About Ability

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capability. Rudy was surprisingly good.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

Viscount Darleigh was charming as well as handsome, and he had the uncanny ability to look in the direction of the person who was speaking almost as if he could see that person. He moved about with the aid of a cane but with surprising confidence. It was clear that he had learned how to cope with his blindness at least within the confines of his own home.

What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?

It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it...

Apa gunanya memiliki kemampuan, Dokter, kalau tak ada tempat untuk melampiaskannya?

La mediocridad no conoce nada más allá de ella, pero el talento instantáneamente reconoce a los genios.

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

Said in reference to Ludwig Wittgenstein: Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target others cannot even see.

Il talento coglie un bersaglio che nessuno riesce a colpire. Il genio coglie un bersaglio che nessuno riesce a vedere.

and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

Talentul e precum un ?inta? care love?te o ?int? pe care ceilal?i nu o pot nimeri; geniul e precum un ?inta? care love?te o ?int? pe care ceilal?i nu o pot vedea.

a) Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever. (b) Cleverness didn't necessarily make a good prime minister. (c) If a person couldn't even run a pickle factory profitably, how was that person going to run a whole country? And, most important of all: (d) All Indian mothers are obsessed with their sons and are therefore poor judges of their abilities.

the volume and complexity of what we know has exceeded our individual ability to deliver its benefits correctly, safely, or reliably.

I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it's not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering.

I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it's not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering.

A person can be utterly incompetent and yet dazzlingly confident. What's more, this same person can know how incompetent they are and still be just as confident. Confidence has nothing to do with ability.

There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

I refuse to apologize for my ability—I refuse to apologize for my success—I refuse to apologize for my money.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

Do you think integrity is the monopoly of the artist? And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.

It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!