What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.
The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us.
We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.
I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.
The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for the most part hinting at things and leaving a great deal to be understood. They frequently exaggerate with the aim of extolling themselves and diminishing the status of others. They are boasters and threateners and given to bombastic self-dramatization, and yet they are quick of mind and with good natural ability for learning.
There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.
Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.
All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.
There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.
Whores have the ability to put up with behaviors other women would never manage to put up with. That's why we deserve to be generously compensated.
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.