Work Ability Quotes

#1. What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it.

Paul Rankin

#2. If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

Scott Rudin

#3. Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person ... It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

Pope Francis

#4. Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

Tory Burch

#5. One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

Tom Barbash

#6. If you have an unusual ability to spot, recruit, and direct those who work well with computers, even if you don't work well with computers yourself, the contemporary world will make you rich.

Tyler Cowen

#7. What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Maira Kalman

#8. Creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed.

Pearl Zhu

#9. The ability comes naturally," replied Kell. "The proficiency takes work. Just as I explained during every one of your lessons." The

V.E Schwab

#10. One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.

Tim Hansel

#11. As is typically the case in large-batch development, both groups had been willing to sacrifice the team's ability to learn in order to work more "efficiently.

Eric Ries

#12. He has the ability to work harder and endure more stress than anyone I've ever met," Gracias said.

Ashlee Vance

#13. Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless
most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

Guy Kawasaki

#15. Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

Michael Jordan

#16. Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.

Lucy Liu

#17. The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.

Ben Morton

#18. I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

Laura Hillenbrand

#19. Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

Alexandra Adornetto

#20. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

Earl Nightingale

#21. Human mortality linked to the human ability consciously to choose how to act by exhibiting free will, humility, hard work, kindness, and compassion provide exemplary opportunities to learn and develop self-discipline.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. Sex murders were usually the work of psychopaths and with that psychology was an innate ability to lie, to act, to feign surprise and horror when it was needed. Psychopaths were great liars.

Michael Connelly

#23. BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.

Indra Nooyi

#24. That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.

Tracy Morgan

#25. I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

Seth Godin

#26. I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.

Henry Kravis

#27. There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times.

Subroto Bagchi

#28. It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S. Truman

#29. Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Timothy Olyphant

#30. My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

Jack Nicklaus

#31. This would be depressing but for one crucial fact: humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We call these miracles technology.

Peter Thiel

#32. The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

Thomas Merton

#33. I think the ability to hit - some guys have it and some guys don't - but I think how dedicated you are to trying to get the most out of yourself, I think kind of determines how good you are and for how long. I was born with the ability to hit, but my work ethic has taken it to the next level.

Tony Gwynn

#34. Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.

Brian Tracy

#35. Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

Cung Le

#36. Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.

Andy Stern

#37. It is not gender, nor age, nor race, but your ability to work hard at what you love.

Cory Doctorow

#38. The best experience for me at CMU was being on stage so much, getting that comfort ability and learning that technique you can use with any type of work because you're comfortable with it and know your skill as an actor.

Matt Bomer

#39. Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Robert Greene

#40. Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

Marvin J. Ashton

#41. Heavenly Father, forgive me my sins. Forgive me my weakness and fear. Help me to fight my cowardice. Strengthen my ability to withstand the sight of suffering, so that I might do Your work in relieving those who endure it. -Toti

Hannah Kent

#42. This virtuous and very industrious woman needs physical strength and ability to do the work of her life, the work of love.

Elizabeth George

#43. I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

Barbara Kruger

#44. Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

Lloyd D. Newell

#45. The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.

Ralph Ellison

#46. Wisdom is the ability to see the invisible

Sunday Adelaja

#47. Patience includes perseverance - the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

Billy Graham

#48. Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

Shaun McNiff

#49. I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.

Albert Hadley

#50. Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

Randy West

#51. When the 'weaker' of the two brains (right and left) is stimulated and encouraged to work in cooperation with the stronger side, the end result is a great increase in overall ability and ... often five to ten times more effectiveness.

Robert E. Ornstein

#52. The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.
If only humans understood ...
Most ignore it.

Amanda Dubin

#53. Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#54. Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

Lynn Jones

#55. I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

Erykah Badu

#56. I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?

Nicolas Cage

#57. To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work. If you don't cultivate this ability, you're likely to fall behind as technology advances. The

Cal Newport

#58. Self-government will not work unless the citizens bear the responsibility to vote in such a way that continues their freedoms and their ability to have free elections, that continues their economic prosperity. They have to vote in a way that does not trade the future for the present. This

Eric Metaxas

#59. Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

Robert Henri

#60. In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's going on it would require so much investment and all their work would require so much review that you'd be more likely to slow things down.

Bill Gates

#61. God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues.

Sunday Adelaja

#62. The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.

Nikki Giovanni

#63. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

Jake M. Johnson

#64. You'd be surprised how hard it is getting the human emotional arc in a script to work. Ultimately a director stands and falls by their ability to do that.

Gurinder Chadha

#65. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Linus Torvalds

#66. We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.

Jeffrey Deitch

#67. Changing things in education involves hard work, determination and an ability to swim against the tide.

Adele Devine

#68. The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

Charles Handy

#69. My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#70. I have found that great people do have in common ... an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have gerat determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.

Yousuf Karsh

#71. Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

Myles Munroe

#72. At a certain point, it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters.

Sheryl Sandberg

#73. If you do not have the innate ability to seek out someone's work on your own, and you have to wait for Hollywood to do it for you, then you are some sort of hillside grazer of culture; you are a sheep, a cow, what is biologically classified as a ruminant ... Fuck you.

Rich Hall

#74. I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

J. Paul Getty

#75. The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.

Sandra Cisneros

#76. We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

Dan Levitan

#77. It's also a narrative of how they collaborated and why their ability to work as teams made them even more creative.

Walter Isaacson

#78. Being a sport star and a chef both require passion, commitment, work and natural ability.

Paul Rankin

#79. I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

Ezra Taft Benson

#80. Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

#81. Don't listen to what people tell you, there are always doubters. Work hard, believe in yourself, and believe in your ability and just work hard.

Arthur Jones

#82. Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Tony Gwynn

#83. I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

Michael Michele

#84. Physical ability only goes so far. You have to work hard the rest of the way.

Jimmy Rollins

#85. GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.

Linda Kaplan Thaler

#86. Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#87. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

Lou Gramm

#88. I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

Adam Carolla

#89. The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

Steve Jobs

#90. The more you work, study and develop your ability to contribute more to the lives and well-being of others, the better life you will have in all areas.

Brian Tracy

#91. I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.

Marc Quinn

#92. A good detective not only has to be intelligent, persevering and prepared to do enless boring routine work, he also needs one other quality: Intuition. I see it rather as the ability to make connections which are there but are not immediately apparent. Subterranean connections.

Dorothy Simpson

#93. Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I'm not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me.

Shani Davis

#94. That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.

Kehinde Wiley

#95. In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential ... Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.

Renee Fleming

#96. On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.

Bobby Orr

#97. The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Stanley Kubrick

#98. Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

Dan Quayle

#99. The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Andrew Carnegie

#100. My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

Thomas A. Edison