Quotes About Ability

In Europe pedigree might be all, "but it is a commodity that cannot be carried to a worse market than to that of America, where people do not enquire concerning a stranger, what is he? but what can he do?

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Can I? Yeah. You bet I can. There's a million things in this world can't do. Couldn't hit a curve ball, even back in high school. Can't fix a leaky faucet. Can't roller-skate or make an F-chord on the guitar that sounds like anything but shit. I have tried twice to be married and couldn't do it either time. But if you want me to take you away, to scare you or involve you or make you cry or grin, yeah. I can. I can bring it to you and keep bringing it until you holler uncle. I am able. I CAN.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.

Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin during the heat of the summer. You can only captain your own soul, and from time to time some smart-ass psychologist will question your ability to even do that.

Telekinesis is the ability to move objects or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind.

Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism

One should try to live with his abilities rather than his deprivals.

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.

The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.

True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.

When Freud was asked what a normal person should be able to do well, he is reputed to have said, "Love and work.

I think these drugs could just as well be called Durkheimogens, given their unique (though unreliable) ability to shut down the self and give people experiences they later describe as "religious" or

To see talent as a gift of natural ability instead of perceiving the long hours of practice that creates talent is nothing new. Michelangelo said, "If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.

So what do you think? Is musical talent something you're born with? Is talent something you either have or you don't? Is musical ability genetic, a gift that runs in your blood? Or is musical talent a result of practice? Does talent develop from mere exposure to music? Can you become more talented through effort? Your answers to these questions matter in a big way. The biggest way.