Ability Quotes - Page 37

• The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Desire, Able

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

  Margaret Mead

  Teaching, Learning, Teach

  Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.44, Transaction Publishers

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• Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.

  Homaro Cantu

  Running, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus it is safer to trust in reason than in men’s opinions.

  Laura Cereta

  Men, Safe, Opinion

  Laura Cereta (2007). “Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.

  John Ratey

  Powerful, Exercise, Impact

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• The reality, or substance, of professional wrestling is the ability to perpetuate a fantasy. I never distinguished between fantasy and reality. I made my fantasy reality for over 60 years.

  Lou Thesz

  Wrestling, Reality, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and … most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.

  Madison Grant

  Real, Blood, White

  Madison Grant (2013). “The Conquest of a Continent”, p.298, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• True gratitude is the ability to humbly see, feel, and even receive love. Gratitude is a form of returning love to God. Recognize His hand, tell Him so, express your love to Him.

  Gene R. Cook

  Gratitude, Hands, Form

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• The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

  Aldous Huxley

  Light, Numbers, People

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.

  Barack Obama

  America, Identity, Genius

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.231, Canongate Books

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• Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.

  Alvin Toffler

  Future, Men, Data

  ALVIN TOFFLER (1970). “FUTURE SHOCK”

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• That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Jobs, Blood

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.17, FV Éditions

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• The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

  Richard Linklater

  Dream, Waking, Infinite

  "Fictional character: Guy Forsyth". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.

  George Washington

  Regret, Exercise, Men

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.

  Ayn Rand

  Money, Evil, Apologizing

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.463, Penguin

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• Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible under a free economy -- and a man's position is determined, not by his productive ability and achievement, but by political pull and force. Under both systems, sacrifice is invoked as a magic, omnipotent solution in any crisis -- and "the public good" is the altar on which victims are immolated.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Political

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.175, Penguin

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• The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

  Ken Danby

  Technology, World, Human Condition

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• Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

  Diogenes

  Men, Ends, Ifs

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• We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Judging, Done, World

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• The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Innocence, Banquets, Endure

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction

  Bertie Ahern

  Office, Politician, Prime

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• What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.

  Charles James Fox

  Voice, People, Political

  "The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume I" edited by J. Wright, (pp. 13-14), 1815.

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• The noise you hear after people see something you do - whether it's a TV show or a movie - that always makes you see that thing slightly differently. Without question. The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. And test-screening a movie can be helpful too. But the part that can be dangerous is when you take those notes as gospel, instead of taking them with a grain of salt. The key is to use the response as one of the tools in your box, as opposed to using it to determine what you do.

  J. J. Abrams

  Tv Shows, Keys, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 2, 2008.

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• I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

  J. J. Abrams

  Reading, Parent, Creepy

  "J. J. Abrams: By the Book". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2013.

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