Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.
A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.
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.
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.
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.
