Quotes About Abilities

Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy in how you perform.

the colony, enough time to impress the settlers with his abilities, and then returned to Europe; now he was coming back. Not long after his ship, the Sea-Mew, passed through the narrows between Staten Eylandt

Any recurring patterns of behavior that can be productively applied are talents.

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.

Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

Diversity might involve ethnicity or physical abilities. But it's just as likely to involve idiosyncratic approaches and differences in experience. If enough peculiar people get together, something new is going to happen. Author Scott Page has shown that as systems get more complex, diversity creates ever more benefits.

Did you do that? (Simone) Sometimes my powers work. Sometimes they don't. Looks like this time they did. Yea, us. (Xypher)

I have some telekinesis, which you already discovered. Premonitions. Can see auras and…I make a killer omelet." – Sundown

Find Your Strengths and Interests

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Adams's proclivity for truculence and curtness probably emerged early. Uncertain of his abilities and laboring under an exaggerated sense of inadequacy, he probably fashioned such an aggressive manner as a defense mechanism.

And when is it ever convincing, the belief others have in your abilities? You know perfectly well they can't see the mess inside you.

Success is waiting for you if you believe in your abilities to achieve it.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

Using our gifts is a way of praising God. — Harry Erb —

In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. —Romans 12:6

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Women are thought to be more social, more interested in relationships and connections, better at multi-tasking.

I hope that my work ethic has been a model for those who do not believe in themselves or have lingering doubts about their own abilities.

'Doom' aficionados expand their adventures as far as their imaginations and artistic abilities allow. Once players have exhausted the 'authorized' levels of 'Doom,' they can go on to explore thousands of additional unauthorized levels available in kits and on the Internet.

I think I outperformed my actual abilities a lot by just rising to the occasion, and that's kind of what I think I thrived on for a long time.