It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.
Lord Mountbatten

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
Roger Waters

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.
Christy Turlington

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
Billy Joel

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
Alan Shepard

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
Robert Johnson

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.
Kim Dae Jung

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
Michael Porter

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
John Hancock

The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.
Sheryl Crow

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
James A. Lovell

I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.
Rupert Murdoch

I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
Harry Caray

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
Cecil Beaton

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
Herschel Walker

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
Bo Bennett

Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
Joe Baca

The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
Joe Baca

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.
Joseph Pulitzer

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Charlotte Whitton