Ability Quotes - Page 5

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.

Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.

The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear a proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.

We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

I would have to say the probability of us dying seems extremely high.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.

You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

Disability is the inability to see ability.