Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.
You have the ability to control your thoughts.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.
Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?
Human willingness to believe precedes their ability to think.
The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.
The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.
I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.
My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
I worked with the best - Givenchy, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent - and it gave me an ability to be confident. It turned me into a CEO and a creative director and a brand.
When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don't think about awards and things like that.
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
We stop being humane when we lose the ability to dream.
