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NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Howard Gardner

Ability

Words

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

Victor Garber

Feelings

Ability

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Ability

Nations

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

Fred Frith

Ability

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.