Ability Quotes - Page 27

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

Unadaptability is often a virtue.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.

You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.

The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

I've always believed in my abilities. Nobody ever gave me anything in life. I had to work for everything I got. It may have gotten really rocky for a while, but I persevered, because I'm not afraid of failing.

Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.

Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism

One of the pre - requisites for children becoming proactive and responsible citizens is the availability of enough role models inside and outside the school.

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals. The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources. The aim is to align as nearly as possible the interests of individuals, corporations and society.

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.