If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.
Eric Heiden

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
Arianna Huffington

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.
Michael Richards

Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
Sachin Tendulkar

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
Clifford Stoll

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
Peter Fonda

My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
Salma Hayek

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
Jack Adams

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Red Auerbach

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
John Ruskin

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Sydney J. Harris

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux

One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
Manfred Mann