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Quotes About Abilities

He says that you have gifts and talents and abilities; you are capable; anything He asks you to do you can do; you are strong in the Lord and not weak; you are forgiven; and on and on and on.
~ Joyce Meyer
God distributes in unequal amounts certain gifts, abilities, and opportunities. The sickly person with few gifts who dies early is not handicapped in the economy of God. Your reward in heaven will not be determined by what God gave you, but by what you do with what God gave you and why you do it.
~ Walter A. Henrichsen
For just as surely as man begins to trust in his own abilities, so surely has he taken the first step on the road to ultimate failure. And the greatest grace God can give such a man is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers—and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
the technology of personality transfer is imperfect--sometimes bits get left behind: memories, abilities, traits, that might be useful. A full succession of bodies can mean successive senility.
~ Walter Jon Williams
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
~ Wilbur Smith
most important characteristics of exceptional learners are their abilities, not their disabilities.
~ Daniel P. Hallahan
The making of a champion is one not given the benefit of the doubt on rumored abilities.
~ Darrell Urban Black
But all these systems of 'education' lack provisions for freedom of experiment, for training and for expression of creative abilities by those who are to be taught. In this respect also all our pedagogues are behind the times.
~ James C. Scott
Can be physical, mental, trade skills, wit, savviness etc. All of us each have our own unique ingredients within us and in our lives just waiting to be used for something greater then ourselves
~ James D Wilson
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
~ James McGreevey
A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime his opinion of his own abilities is strengthened. His sense of proportion is warped. He does not say, 'I have been clever and lucky!' No, he says only, 'l have been clever!' And his opinion of his cleverness grows... and then, roes amis, the ball spins
~ Agatha Christie
Precisely. A murderer is always a gambler. And, like many gamblers, a murderer often does not know when to stop. With each crime his opinion of his own abilities is strengthened. His sense of proportion is warped. He does not say "I have been clever and lucky!" No, he says only "I have been clever!
~ Agatha Christie
And that's just how it is. During youth the desire for self-expression is so overpowering that most people end up by losing all grasp on their real selves. I was no exception. I strained to perform technical tours de force as I painted, and the resulting pictures revealed my distaste for myself. Gradually I lost confidence in my abilities, and the act of painting itself became painful for me.
~ Akira Kurosawa
No one has ever doubted Kevin Pietersen's abilities as a player, he has been a phenomenal player for England for a long period of time, his record stacks up to anyone's in English cricket and he should be very proud of his record.
~ Andrew Strauss
This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.
~ Jorge Masvidal
In high school, I was very good in math and physics. I wasn't good at much of anything else. Some people are good at a lot of things. I don't know how they choose what to do.
~ Donna Strickland
I just wanna hoop and be out there with my soldiers. Go to war. Try to, to the best of my abilities, help us win.
~ Jimmy Butler
When you go out on to that field it's going to be war. Sportsmanship is playing to the best of your abilities and then, afterwards, shaking your opponent's hand.
~ Bruce Grobbelaar
The only reality consists of human beings trying to solve difficult problems. Their results, which seem to be solutions to some of those problems, we call science. Science has no life of its own. It does not deserve to be spoken of as an entity in its own right. There are only people, whom we call scientists, and their accomplishments are severely limited by their quite meager abilities. Meager, when viewed in comparison with the magnitude of the problems they attack.
~ Raymond F. Jones
Getting a casting means that a lot of people have put a lot of faith in you and your abilities, and you constantly think 'I hope I don't let them down.'
~ Karla Crome
Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.
~ Evelyn Glennie
I think people get caught up a little bit in the fact of finding things that people can't do instead of looking at the things that the player can do.
~ Trae Young
I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
~ Gavin Newsom