Ability

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

- Dag Hammarskjöld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

His leadership and ability to make saves at key moments in a game were a large factor in our success during the qualifying campaign. The fact that he is the only three-time winner of the award is a testament to the consistency, commitment and dedication he has displayed throughout his career.

- Bruce Arena Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

One of the first things he did was a split in midair in my office. Then he dropped down and did 400 different kinds of pushups - one-armed, clapping in front, clapping behind his back, in the air, flipping over. I was just dumbfounded not only by this guy's charisma but his ability to do this in front of grown adults and look really cool.

- Brown Johnson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community --the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.

- Andrew Carnegie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We need to play better on a lot of fronts, ... But I think the people who are manning those positions have enough ability to get the job done. We didn't get the job done. So, we did a poor job all the way around. We did a poor job on the field. We did a poor job in the classroom. I did a poor job upstairs.

- Matt Millen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This is something that Sun has needed to do for a long time in order to get parity with HP and IBM. They need to show customers that their systems have the ability to manage IT resources according to business need -- without human intervention -- in order to catch up to HP and IBM.

- Dan Olds Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The ability of Intel to come out and say a 'no worse than expected' story pleased the market. There are many other corporations in technology that are in that position so that if the slowdown is just a slowdown, there's good upside in many of those issues.

- Barry Hyman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There's a danger that they simply disappear, and the ability to work with them and help address problems gets lost.

- Mark Greenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

- Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

- Henry Ward Beecher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to light lovers -- particularly to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.

- Ambrose Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I try to keep in touch with the details . . . I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.

- Rupert Murdoch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

- Haki Madhubuti Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

- Madeleine L'Engle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.

- Lewis Thomas Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.

- Joseph Joubert Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All of life is a risk in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

- Jim Rohn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

- Bruce Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

- Lowell Thomas Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

- Sophie Tucker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

- Brian Tracy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ability is sexless.

- Christabel Pankhurst Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

- Gail Hamilton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The superior man is distressed by the limitation of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has.

- Confucius Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

- Donna Summer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes