I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation.
Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.
I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.
National security laws must protect national security. But they must also protect the public trust and preserve the ability of an informed electorate to hold its government to account.
And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.
Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.
But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.
Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and supersti...
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.
Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?
We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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.
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
