Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right. In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.
I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.
The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.
A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.
Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.
I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.
I am so grateful to everybody that supports the Sheckler Foundation, and gives us the ability to continue to help kids and injured action sports athletes.
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
