My Ability Quotes

#1. I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

Raymond Chandler

#2. Any purpose will be entirely purposeless unless it completely exceeds my ability to achieve it for only then is there room for God, and without God purpose of even the most magnificent sort remains utterly and abjectly purposeless.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.

Starhawk

#4. If I envy someone's looks I am denying my own beauty. If I envy their possessions I'm denying my own abundance, my ability to attract or create whatever I truly desire.

David Mezzapelle

#5. I am inspired beyond my ability to articulate ... and now I know what and who I want to be ... a soldier for peace.

Will Smith

#6. If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Dean Koontz

#7. One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

Daniel Cormier

#8. I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

Jon Foreman

#9. I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.

Gail Porter

#10. I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening.

George Carlin

#11. ...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

Jake Wood

#12. If I could get down on my knees and ask for your forgiveness I would," he said "but I'm afraid that along with misplaced manners, yesterday's accident has also taken away my ability to grovel properly."-Landon

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#13. With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

W. Eugene Smith

#14. I don't like seeing you cry. You will stop." I'll give you a promise," he said gruffly. "And then you will cease your worrying." You will have confidence in my ability to protect you," he ordered. You will have faith in me. I command it.

Julie Garwood

#15. She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.

T.D. Mulhern

#16. I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

Anna Held

#17. If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

Kevin Pollak

#18. All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life - collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It's a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. The best way to describe my ability was to say that after the game the other kids would say to me, 'Way to try!'

Jon Stewart

#20. One of the things I love about myself is my ability to remain open to suggestion.

Alan Bradley

#21. The idea of bonding or whatever, with you was crazy. The idea of bonding with a total stranger, a stranger that happens to be a werewolf mind you, is beyond my ability to be reasonable about,

Quinn Loftis

#22. My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

Cam Newton

#23. In my present life from day to day, I attempt to improve my understanding of God by responding to Him in three basic ways: by moving outwards into positive action, by exercising my ability to choose positive thoughts, and by allowing myself to be drawn inwards to positive being.

A.A. World Services Inc.

#24. My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Maya Angelou

#25. My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

Olivia Sudjic

#26. I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates.

LeBron James

#27. My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

Tori Amos

#28. This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability.

David Kay

#29. My dick's wisdom impeded my ability to have meaningless intercourse.

John Duover

#30. My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.

Winston Churchill

#31. I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Gareth Bale

#32. Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

Thomas Bernhard

#33. The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

Sherry Thomas

#34. My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

Patrick Warburton

#35. Bobby had faith in my ability as a singer.

Julie London

#36. I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

Christine Sinclair

#37. Breathing, n
You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine.
Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

David Levithan

#38. I believe in my heart I'm the best player in the world. I'm just a scorer. I try to put the ball in the basket for my team. I'm just confident in my ability to play ball.

Allen Iverson

#39. Could you bite back your complaints? You're fucking with my run."
"Your run is fucking with my ability to complain," Tom called back.

S.E. Jakes

#40. I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

Narendra Modi

#41. I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

Robert Redford

#42. I have decided that I will test my ability ... in the fires of the primaries and not just in the smoke-filled rooms of Miami Beach.

Theodore H. White

#43. Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything ... I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...

David Sheff

#44. I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

David Neeleman

#45. My ability to help my clients was limited by our narrow focus. This was partly my fault for defining myself as a specialist, but I eventually came to see that this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture.

Peter Morville

#46. For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

Lynn Hill

#47. I only run from darkness when I'm not confident in my ability to shine.

D.R. Silva

#48. The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality.

Eric Sloane

#49. His touch fucked with my ability to concentrate even more than his presence already had. My lower belly was in a state of what-the-fuck-are-you-doing? My skin was in a state of "holy fucking hell let him touch every part of you" and my vagina had pulled out the fucking welcome mat.

Nina Levine

#50. I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.

David Chang

#51. I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.

Hippocrates

#52. I had to free myself from my devotion to him... to us... without losing my ability to believe in love.

Jennifer Harrison

#53. When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.

Waite Hoyt

#54. I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space

Maggie Stiefvater

#55. If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

Frederick Lenz

#56. I love to show off my ability in a nice way.

Yani Tseng

#57. The only thing that remained consistent over the years was my ability and enthusiasm to tell the story.

Herb Trimpe

#58. My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

Jessica Abel

#59. One of the unfortunate side effects of my medication is it hinders my ability to act crazy.

Kyra Davis

#60. It was a shame I couldn't go public with my ability. Girls found immortality hot, right? Slap on a pair of fangs and add some glitter and I could probably hook up with my choice of rabid Twilight fangirls.

Jus Accardo

#61. I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to get back to where I am very confident in my ability to bike a long way.

Tom Brokaw

#62. I'm very, very confident in my ability to see the game - even before it's played.

LeBron James

#63. I try very hard to be annoying. Don't insult my ability to annoy.

Rick Riordan

#64. My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.

Wilma Mankiller

#65. I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.

Harry Caray

#66. But really, my ability to exercise oversight willingly flows from my vision. No, not a vision for an "awesomely bold" church - at least, not at first - but of my God and for the flock of God that is among me.

Jared C. Wilson

#67. I represented the people of Hawaii and this nation honestly and to the best of my ability. I think I did okay.

Daniel Inouye

#68. I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

Randy Harrison

#69. I liked to nibble. Would a necklace interfere with my ability to nuzzle?

Helena Hunting

#70. I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

Marianne Williamson

#71. It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.

J Mascis

#72. You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

Willard Libby

#73. One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.

Lupita Nyong'o

#74. Kilorn shoulders his way to my side, separating us before I can tell Cal my strength and my ability are all I'm sure of now. The electricity in my veins might be the only thing I trust in this world. I

Victoria Aveyard

#75. Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

David Brainerd

#76. Every sector of society looks at digital analytics in a productive way. Limiting my ability to use them is just unacceptable. And by the way, Congress conducts polls using traditional methods. No one is using social media analytics as a substitute for that.

Cory Booker

#77. Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

Samantha Stosur

#78. I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Mickey Rourke

#79. As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Alice Walker

#80. One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag ... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.

Alexander Karp

#81. My success or failure in school was dependent on my ability to follow a curriculum that felt as if it had very little to do with me as a human being.

Ben Hewitt

#82. When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

Charles Bukowski

#83. My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

Henrietta Szold

#84. ...I won't ever again allow doubt to come in and dissolve my ability to live life as fully as I can.

Ann Linnea

#85. I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost.

Andrew Loomis

#86. So if my ability to meditate was what was going to save the world, or at least save Portland, then I was pretty sure we should all think about moving to Seattle.

Devon Monk

#87. The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

Jack Nicklaus

#88. It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure]

Adrian Lamo

#89. I won't stick around to see how much temptation I can take. God is not impressed with my ability to stand up to sin. He is more impressed by the obedience I show when I run from it.

Joshua Harris

#90. I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him speak through imperfect people.

Francis Frangipane

#91. I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

Joe Louis

#92. If a woman is surrounded by lovers or if a woman has a lot of guys asking her out, that's considered wonderful. As a woman who's slept with a lot of men, I've always been complimented on my ability to attract men.

Susan Cheever

#93. It was a tribute to my ability to present an image so at variance with what I felt that few noticed I was in any way different.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#94. For me, the Lord has opened the windows of heaven and showered blessings upon my family beyond my ability to express.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#95. Writing has significantly improved my ability to lie.

Gerry Stimmler

#96. Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.

Michelle Williams

#97. I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

Frank Whaley

#98. I've never doubted my ability.

Priest Holmes

#99. My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

Garrison Keillor

#100. Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.

Matt Mullenweg