I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
~By Maurice Strong ~
By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.
~By Estelle Morris ~
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.
~By Tiffeny Milbrett ~
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.
~By Michael Porter ~
Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
~By Herschel Walker ~
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.
~By Dominique Wilkins ~
We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
~By Richard Shelby ~
The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
~By Arundhati Roy ~
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
~By Lou Holtz ~
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
~By John Frankenheimer ~
If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
Ability is sexless.
~By John Henry Newman ~
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
~By Whitney M. Young ~
Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
~By Rick Pitino ~
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
~By Chuck Jones ~
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
~By B. F. Skinner ~
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
~By Mel Brooks ~
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
~By Marc Davis ~
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
~By Lennart Meri ~
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
~By Richard Gere ~
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
~By Ben Bernanke ~
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.
~By Kyle D. Pruett ~
The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
~By Lowell Thomas ~
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
~By Nigel Kennedy ~
I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.
~By Ron White ~
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
~By David Rockefeller ~
In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
~By William Feather ~
Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.
~By Neil LaBute ~
The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
~By David Axelrod ~
A local company has more accountability.
~By Paul Hawken ~
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
~By John Shelby Spong ~
We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.
~By John Abizaid ~
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
~By Robin Trower ~
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
~By William Vickrey ~
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.
~By Mike Pence ~
From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States.
~By Mel Martinez ~
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
~By Confucius ~
Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
~By Ed Townsend ~
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
~By Winston Churchill ~
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.
~By Paul Hawken ~
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
~By Viktor E. Frankl ~
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
~By Ian Botham ~
I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
~By James Earl Jones ~
If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.
~By Olusegun Obasanjo ~
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.
~By Steven Chu ~
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
~By James Laughlin ~
Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.
~By Curtis Lemay ~
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
~By Rachel Corrie ~
I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
~By William Glasser ~
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
~By Ernest Istook ~
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
~By Charlotte Whitton ~
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.
~By Dick Cheney ~
But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
~By Charles Bukowski ~
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.
~By John Cheever ~
The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.
~By Tony Blair ~
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
~By Herman Hesse ~
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
~By Alfred Edward Housman ~
Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.
~By Carl Levin ~
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.
~By John Engler ~
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.
~By Oprah Winfrey ~
The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
~By Joan Blades ~
For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
~By Natalie Wood ~
I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
~By Todd Solondz ~
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.
~By David Cross ~
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