Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
~ Ned Rorem
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
~ Matt Mullenweg
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
~ Max Eastman
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
~ G-Eazy
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
~ Hans Hofmann
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
~ Karl Kraus
Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
~ Charlotte Whitton
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
~ William Barclay
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
~ Gene Roddenberry
I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
~ Ricky Williams
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
~ Joyce Meyer
I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
~ Saina Nehwal
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
~ Stephen Hawking
Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.
~ Adeo Ressi
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.
~ Danny Rimer
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
~ Brian Tracy
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.
~ Cornelius Vanderbilt
My motto is to do everything absolutely flat out and to the best of your ability.
~ Allan Mcnish
There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.
~ Sam Kean
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
~ Adam Mckay
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
~ Abraham Lincoln
God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.
~ Emmitt Smith
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
~ David Bohm
I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
~ Joseph Haydn
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
~ Fred Perry
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
~ George Will
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
~ Dianne Feinstein
For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.
~ Chris Toumazou
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
~ Charles Luckman
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
~ Baltasar Gracián
Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
