The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
Richard Pryor

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
Howard Gardner

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.
Norman Mailer

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
Marilyn vos Savant

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
Marilyn vos Savant

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Thomas Carlyle

Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
Gerry Adams

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
Jane Wagner

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
Mickey Rourke

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
Maurice Strong