Ability Quotes - Page 25

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.

Ability means all of us finding our strengths and putting them to full use.

Power is the ability to afford not to learn.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

Hell is the inability to love.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

If we must “feel” God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.

I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

We can never achieve absolute truth but we can live hopefully by a system of calculated probabilities.

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Power is the ability to get things done