My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.
Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.