Able
Definition: Having the power, skill, means, or opportunity to do something. Having considerable skill, proficiency, or intelligence.
Number of Quotes: 18
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in
herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds,
insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability
to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it
clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
Bella Abzug
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the
experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
The leader ... is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather, they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators
than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
Warren Bennis
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of
teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
Marva Collins
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to
choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Victor Frankl
We rely on skilled foreign workers for their math, science, and creative abilities as
well as their cultural knowledge, which helps when localizing products for world markets.
Bill Gates
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in
a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade
Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
Noreena Hertz
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard
I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one
of these people with 50 average people. They could just do stuff that no number of average people could do.
Steve Jobs
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point
is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas
of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?
Shannon Purser
The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its
individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.
Reg Revans
I have nothing to offer you but my strength for your defence, my honesty for your surety, my ability and industry for
your livelihood, and my authority and position for your dignity. That is all it becomes a man to offer to a woman.
George Bernard Shaw
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
George Bernard Shaw
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
Alfred North Whitehead
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