Best Ability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.”

People Looks Mean Ability Laughing Fabulous Making People Laugh Deep Inside

Author:Jane Lynch

“For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?”

Looks Important Character Actors Ability Important Things Converses

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.”

Giving Government Ability Decision British Declaration Reluctant Clarification British Government

Author:Martin McGuinness

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.”

People Thinking World Children Ability Psychology Examining Prodigious Life Living

Author:Jodie Foster

“Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.”

Kind Ability Attention Influence Special Events Authority Presidential Obsessed Significance Pardon Perks Pardon Me

Author:Barbara Olson

“My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.”

Thinking I Can Happens Ability Comedy Wife Achievement Approach My Wife Working Women

Author:Nick Offerman

“Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.”

Wells States Might Remember Ability Dues Senate Mentor Illinois Uncanny

Author:Ron Fournier

“Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.”

Children School Nations Ability Effort Support Meals Nutrition Pizza Carrots Broccoli Celery

Author:Jared Polis

“If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.”

Ifs Persons Real Actors Ability Offers

Author:Kevin Pollak

“Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.”

Goal Ability Athlete

Author:Bill Toomey

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.”

Thinking Years Art Ability Five Fields Make Sense Martial Arts

Author:Jet Li

“It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.”

Knows Trying May I Can Action Actors Can Do Ability Mistake Fantasy Limitation Genre Being The Best Can Not Attempting De Niro Highlander

Author:Christopher Lambert

“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“Studying design has made me a much, much more astute observer of this aspect of business. And I'm working mightily to improve my empathic skills. I've dramatically improved my ability to read facial expressions - and I'm trying to be a better, more attentive listener.”

Trying Made Ability Study Design Expression Skills Aspect Listeners Observers Facial Facial Expression Astute

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.”

Giving Children Lasts Ability Skills Adults Aim My Children Learners Homeschooling

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.”

Ability Classical Music

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“I miss my boats, and I miss having the ability to be out on the water during the daytime and then go skiing at night.”

Night Water Ability Missing Boat Skiing Daytime

Author:Jason Priestley

“I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.”

Want Mean Done Actors Winning Ability Acting Movie Oscars

Author:Megan Fox

“All my movies, as I get the ability to do it, they tend to go a little darker, a little darker.”

Littles Ability

Author:Todd Phillips

“The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.”

Helping Girl Opportunity Sports Ability Leader Position Kings Honor Unique Organization Foundation Impact Excited Active Developing Legacy

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.”

World Moving Lying Nations Ability Moving Forward Our World

Author:James Rollins

“I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.”

People World Years Has Beens Country Jobs Ability Economic Worst Absolutes Crisis Ministers Australia Prime Prime Minister Steers Economic Crisis

Author:Kevin Rudd

“I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.”

Writing Doe Happens Ability United Bills Inspired Incredibles Kingdoms Australia Entertaining Mixtures Enlightening United Kingdom

Author:Mary Roach

“It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.”

Given Ability Strange

Author:Michael Richards

“I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.”

Thinking Writing Trying Character Ability Vacation Sensibility Another Time

Author:Ron Rash

“Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.”

Ability Fiction Novel Reader Mediums Narrative I've Learned Length Lacking

Author:Ron Rash

“Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.”

Ability Company Internet Raises Crowds Investors Funding Troublesome

Author:Steven Rattner

“If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Years Looks Three Ability Four Havens Consumers Online Four Years

Author:Stuart Rose

“Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.”

Feels Ability Pride Demand Shame

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.”

Important Body Ability Exercise Core Tennis Gym Stability Session Rotation Abdominals Core Strength

Author:Samantha Stosur

“The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.”

Has Beens Ability Gift From God

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.”

People Has Beens Facts Ability Singing

Author:Brett Somers

“Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.”

Mind Wells Able Enjoy Ability Incredibles Tangible

Author:Donna Summer

“To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.”

Mind Mean Ability Common Knowledge Equal Tasks Details Intellect Useless Reasoning Leisure Idle

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.”

Ifs Self Ability Defense Vulnerable Sensitive Psychics Self Defense Psychic Abilities

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The buildup of negative auric vibrations initially impairs our ability to perceive psychically. They can eventually cause us to become ill. Most serious illnesses, including many types of cancer, are the result of auric toxicity.”

Causes Ability Results Serious Type Negative Including Ill Cancer Illness Perceive Vibrations Toxicity Serious Illness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“[Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.”

Years Facts Political Culture Given Ability Republican Evidence Structure Decay Moderates Romney Massachusetts Ability To Change

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.”

“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Feels Writing Persons Important Character Stories Care Lying Individual Ability Core

Book:Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

Source: Creating Characters: How to Build Story People

“Wisdom is the ability to realize that everyone has their own dharma, everyone goes their own way. What works for you is not the ultimate good. Know that other people have different way.”

People Knows Way Different Wisdom Realizing Ability Buddhism Ultimate Different Ways Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.”

World Two Wisdom Light Enjoy Ability Buddhism Realms Two Things Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.”

Feels Wisdom Ability Buddhism Depth Height Ability To Love

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.”

Ability Buddhism Balance Circumstances Boring Midst Chaotic Transient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.”

Spiritual Ability Buddhism Balance Caught Neighbor Caught Up Hostile Trivia Spiritual Balance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.”

Self Moments Process Ability Deals Accepting Humility Buddhism Balance Discovery Who You Are Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Perception is the ability to be conscious of self and that which is other than self. Without thinking about it, a distinction is made between who we are and what we perceive.”

Thinking Made Self Ability Awareness Buddhism Perception Conscious Perceive Who We Are Distinction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All of us have an aura, a body of energy linked to different planes of awareness. Some have the ability to access more planes of awareness then others because of past lives, because of practice in this life.”

Different Body Past Energy Ability Practice Awareness Buddhism Access This Life Planes Linked Past Life Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Anyone has the ability, if they choose, to move to the higher end of the state of mind they are in. From that higher end, they can generate another state of mind.”

Ifs Mind Ends States Moving Ability Awareness Buddhism Higher State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

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