Quotes about Ability

Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism

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

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!

I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

People's desire and ability to think — to process, gather, and study information to ensure they arrive at an accurate conclusion — has been greatly diminished.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

Ten of the twelve spies focused on the problems, not on the promises. Two of the twelve spies, Joshua and Caleb, focused on the promises, not on the problems. Joshua and Caleb said, "We are well able." The other spies said, "We are not able." Each got exactly what they said. They all settled their own destinies by the way they used their tongues.

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

He did, however, put in me the ability to make a decision and then make it right.