Ability Quotes - Page 30

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.

As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to which you can in principle direct your attention.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Disability can be no handicap.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

Everybody ought to relish profitability.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Simply stated, power is the ability to get things done.

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.