Ability Quotes - Page 16

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Rather than relying on my skills, the musical ability of my band or the technical expertise of our production team, I want to learn to rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Only then will our churches come alive in worship.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

You have more potential than you think.

What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared... It's like 50% off... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace.

What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

A corporation like Enron is a person with a legal identity and no ethical accountability.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.