Ability Quotes - Page 26

The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person who has, and will continue to bloom. To be seen not only as a handicap, but as a well intact human being.

The size of your organization is directly related to your ability to enforce the rules.

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.

Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.

Some days you see lots of people on crutches.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality.

Anger alone is not going to be enough. You deserve a nominee who tells you exactly, "Here's what we're going to do," and outlines that. So you know what you're getting. So there's some level of accountability here. So my campaign is about this. We are very realistic about our challenges right now in this country.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.

To obtain success, you must get the most out of your ability and to do that you must work on your weaknesses.

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Sustainability: It's the right thing to do, it's the smart thing to do, it's the profitable thing to do.

The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence