All Quotes

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

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
‐‐ Abraham Maslow

The ability to be successful should be a good thing.
‐‐ Michael Grimm

The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
‐‐ Ian Lustick

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

The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
‐‐ Mo Udall

The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.
‐‐ Michael Gove

The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.
‐‐ Bobby Bonilla

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
‐‐ Lee Iacocca

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
‐‐ Anton Seidl

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
‐‐ Gary Ackerman

The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

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

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.
‐‐ Joachim de Posada

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

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
‐‐ Eric Topol

The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.
‐‐ Orville Wright

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

The ability to fight isn't a one-size fits all; everybody is different.
‐‐ Melissa McBride

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.
‐‐ Robert Shea

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
‐‐ John Foster Dulles

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.
‐‐ Anton Yelchin

The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical. That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.
‐‐ Mos Def

The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.
‐‐ Jan Chipchase

The ability to live for five hundred years would be an incredible gift. But I greatly fear it would be a gift only for the wealthy - one that might greatly widen the gap between those with access and those without.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
‐‐ Heywood Broun

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
‐‐ Robin Trower

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.
‐‐ Jonathan Zittrain

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.
‐‐ Louis Bacon

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.
‐‐ Bill Toomey

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
‐‐ David Bohm

The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
‐‐ Philip Warren Anderson

The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.
‐‐ Laurie Helgoe

The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
‐‐ Sendhil Mullainathan

The ability to scale up is hard. So the best model for us is concentrated India, diversified financial services, and through this, we can get significant scale on an Indian platform.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally.
‐‐ Des Browne

The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
‐‐ Hans Hofmann

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.
‐‐ Lowell Thomas

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.
‐‐ Brian Tee

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.
‐‐ Rupert Penry-Jones

The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
‐‐ Jay Parini