Ability Quotes

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel

Home, Art, Else

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith

Fire, Talent, Discipline

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
Roy L. Smith

Greatest, Share, Difficulty

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
Wilma Mankiller

Forward, Moving, Down

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

Daily, Important, Mean

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.
John Sununu

Good, Important, Lost

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.
Rick Perry

Heart, Question, Movement

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

Husband, Situation, Might

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

Life, Live, Sometimes

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

Life, Live, Try

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Future, Why, Against

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
A. N. Wilson

Family, Great, Business

Power is the ability to get things done.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
Benjamin Carson

Life, Great, Everything

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

Time, Reputation, Goes

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy L. Smith

Accept, Measure

I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Don Shula

Hope, Winning, Done

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
Salman Rushdie

Life, End, Writing

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

Time, Learning, Two

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.
Mark Zuckerberg

Life, Fun, True

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

Work, Great, Men

Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.
David Cameron

Help, Integrity, Single

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus

Wisdom, Attained

Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.
John Podhoretz

Lost, Through, Himself

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
Doris Lessing

Great, Mother, Woman

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

Yourself, Important, May

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
Sting

Success, Freedom, Whatever

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab

Men, Best, Greatest

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Elayne Boosler

Funny, Truth, Through

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

Change, Best, Away

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