Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.
We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.
Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
I make time to exercise. It's not being indulgent. I think it's got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There's no doubt about that.
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
The need to help spread democracy and the ability to do that will be much greater if we break this addiction to oil, which gives the oil princes and sultans the power in the Mideast.
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.
I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring.
I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?
Count Orsini-Rosenberg: [about Mozart] A young man trying to impress beyond his abilities.
