Ability - Quotes
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
I've learned that empowered thinking is a choice - a state of mind. It's the ability to enjoy a rose with no mind of the thorn. It's the ability to celebrate a life even though it has passed. It's seeing the flowers even during a rainstorm.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person`s point of view and see things from that person`s angle as well as from your own.
Happiness is not the absence of problems; it`s the ability to deal with them.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? There isn't a religion on the planet that doesn't long for a comparable ability - precise, and repeatedly demonstrated before committed skeptics - to foretell future events. No other human institution comes close.
The ability to understand something before it`s observed is at the heart of scientific thinking.
Ability is what you`re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution. Many animals react instinctively with terror and flight at the approach of a predator. It is a healthy reaction, one that allows them to escape from danger. But it`s a terror that lasts an instant, not something that remains with them constantly. Natural selection has produced these big apes with hypertrophic frontal lobes, with an exaggerated ability to predict the future. It`s a prerogative that`s certainly useful but one that has placed before us a vision of our inevitable death, and this triggers the instinct of terror and flight. Basically, I believe that the fear of death is the result of an accidental and clumsy interference between two distinct evolutionary pressures - the product of bad automatic connections in our brain rather than something that has any use or meaning.