quotations about ability
Whatever your ability is you only have to perform at that ability.
RUTH BLANCH
attributed, "CWA hosts Armidale Special Olympic speakers ", The Armidale Express, October 14, 2016
Because ability can be managed, employers must consider it as a starting point, but one that is incomplete and possibly even the least important quality of all. After all, an employee with a lower level of proficiency, but a high level of aptitude, can learn to become more capable. His or her abilities can increase with time, experience, and training.
ERIC SWENSON
The Five A's of Great Employees
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKE
Reflections on the Revolution in France
I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?
ELIZABETH GILBERT
Eat, Pray, Love
Ability consists in doing what we apprehend we can do.
HAKEWELL
attributed, Day's Collacon
If you question your abilities in game, it impacts your shot that much more.
JORDS
"#15 UK Hoops at #12 Texas A&M: Preview and Gamethread", A Sea of Blue, February 28, 2016
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.
GEORGE CRABBE
English Synonyms
The competition level's going to rise and your ability is going to rise, too.
ABDUL-MALIK ABU
attributed, "NC State slams the door emphatically on non-conference play", WRAL Sports Fan, December 28, 2016
Paying attention to the way you think about your abilities can be a game-changer.... In the fixed mindset, people think their talents and abilities are fixed. If you think this way, then you worry about them and try to validate them, limiting you. When you operate with a fixed mindset you're afraid to ask for help.... In contrast, when you embrace a growth mindset, you believe that your talents and abilities can be developed through hard work, good strategy and mentoring.
DENISE GARCIA
"This simple shift in thinking can make you more successful, professor says", CNBC, June 13, 2016
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
HORACE WALPOLE
It's important to remember that your abilities are gifts. You are the guardian of your own abilities and it's up to you to use them in a positive manner.
MELISSA ALVAREZ
Your Psychic Self
Natural ability is nothing without effort.
JOSEPH NOCCO
"Buccaneers to retain veteran wide receiver Vincent Jackson for next season", Today's Pigskin, February 1, 2016
In the last analysis, ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
ELBERT HUBBARD
"The Crying Need", A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things
Succeeding means pushing past beliefs that your abilities are limited in some way. You may believe you're not creative. But you can be, with deliberate practice.
HARVEY SCHACHTER
"The secret to peak performance", The Globe and Mail, July 20, 2016
The problem with that is that it takes a lot of faith and it takes a lot of trust in what you're doing and what your ability is to just go up there day after day knowing no matter who is on the mound, I'm going to trust my ability and not try and overthink or do too much or waver based on the fact if I get a hit or not.
STEVEN SOUZA JR.
"Rays' Souza pursues elusive eliteness", Tampa Bay Times, January 23, 2017
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.
HUGH BLAIR
Sermons
The desire of appearing persons of ability often prevents our being so.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
François de La Rochefoucauld (15 September 1613 - 17 March 1680) was a noted French moralist. He is part of the literary movement of classicism and best known for his maxims, which had a profound influence on German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
You should be able to do the things you want in life, no matter what your ability is. The attitude should be, "Well why can't you do it?"
JOANNE O'RIORDAN
"You should be able to do the things you want in life, no matter what your ability is", Irish Independent, May 2, 2016