You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years. . . Every five to 10 years.
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
What one leads on-sight, in good, strong style, safely, is what one's ability is.
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.
Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
The reason why America was built is so that we would have the ability to choose who we pray to, whether we do or don't.
The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.
The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. . . one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love. . . What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. . . it is an indispensable thing people can call it blasphemy if they like, but if they call it that they have to assume there is something to be blasphemed - some divine work, well I don't accept the premise.
Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.
We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.