Ability Quotes - page 3

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. (Karl Marx)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness. View quote
Minoru Yamasaki
In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn. View quote
Robert Sternberg
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him. View quote
Helen Fielding
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had. View quote
Berry Gordy
American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is. View quote
Desi Arnaz
Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful. (Kathleen Winsor)
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. View quote
Mel Brooks
A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. View quote
George Eliot
On the tennis court, one needs a cool temperament, tremendous ball sense, reflexes, speed, hand-eye co-ordination, power, timing and peak physical fitness. Off the court, the player and support team need skills in planning, execution, travel, an ability to raise funds when needed, and several other talents. View quote
Sania Mirza
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Ability without honor is useless. View quote
Cicero
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. View quote
Cicero
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. View quote
Simone Weil
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. (John D. Rockefeller)
There never was a bad man that had ability for good service. View quote
Edmund Burke
'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. View quote
Edmund Burke
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own. View quote
Margaret Mead
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. View quote
Gao Xingjian