#Ability

"Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed."

"You have the ability to choose your reactions."

"What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning."

"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]"

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."

"The key to Turkey's success has been its ability to reinvent itself as times change."

"The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures."

"The only gift I have to give, is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me."

"The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities."

"Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them."

"Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

"What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives."

"Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends."

"Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference."

"Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God."