Ability Quotes

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I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

Maggie Stiefvater

To me, the level of responsibility is measured by one's ability to confront the decision-making process without any delay or distraction.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

For a man solemnly to undertake the interpretation of any portion of Scripture without invocation of God, to be taught and instructed by His Spirit, is a high provocation of him; nor shall I expect the discovery of truth from any one who thus proudly engages in a work so much beyond his ability.

It's all for the planned redistribution of wealth which is also stated in this document, the redistribution of wealth which is based on a new concept called equity. And it says this: we must not lose sight of equity, or fairness based on need. Where have you heard that here, today? From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Michele Bachmann

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

John C. Maxwell

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

Object-oriented programming languages support encapsulation, thereby improving the ability of software to be reused, refined, tested, maintained, and extended. The full benefit of this support can only be realized if encapsulation is maximized during the design process.
We argue that design practices which take a data-driven approach fail to maximize encapsulation because they focus too quickly on the implementation of objects. We propose an alternative object-oriented design method which takes a responsibility-driven approach. We show how such an approach can increase the encapsulation by deferring implementation issues until a later stage.

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

She had long since forgotten the meaning of a smile, but the physical ability to make the gesture remained.

A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.

Christian D. Larson

Perhaps our ultimate understanding of scientific topics is measured in terms of our ability to generate metaphoric pictures of what is going on. Maybe understanding is coming up with metaphoric pictures.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Ecological rationality uses reason – rational reconstruction – to examine the behavior of individuals based on their experience and folk knowledge, who are 'naïve' in their ability to apply constructivist tools to the decisions they make; to understand the emergent order in human cultures; to discover the possible intelligence embodied in the rules, norms and institutions of our cultural and biological heritage that are created from human interactions but not by deliberate human design. People follow rules without being able to articulate them, but they can be discovered.

Vernon L. Smith

The untutored child possesses two qualities which are always preserved in the mature artist: imagination, and the ability to encounter his own feelings.

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.

It's the ability to see things a new way, and from that insight to produce something that didn't exist before—something original. It sometimes means piercing the mundane to find the marvelous—or looking beyond the marvelous to find the mundane.

One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts...

Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine through our understanding and ability to articulate the meaning of freedom, the more we will be beacons that can attract others.

Richard Ebeling

What makes a leftist a leftist is not this or that theory but his ability to integrate any theory into the kitsch called the Grand March.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. —Z. Applewhite.

Stephanie S. Tolan

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning ability to, and bics, meaning withstand tremendous boredom.