The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
Charles Eames

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Dag Hammarskjold

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de Angelis

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Bernard Baruch

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Bernard Baruch

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
Keanu Reeves

Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
Mickey Mantle

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
Mickey Mantle

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Raymond Chandler

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
James Thurber

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Martin Van Buren

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
Barbara Kingsolver

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
Charlie Sheen

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.
Francis Ford Coppola