Ability Quotes - Page 11

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result.

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Creative ability is often mistakenly attributed to inborn talent. It is about all the ability to connect one thing with another.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.

Flexibility is the key to stability.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present