The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
~By Kenneth Kaunda ~
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
~By John Major ~
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
~By John Thorn ~
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 ~
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
~By William J. Clinton ~
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
~By Herschel Walker ~
Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.
~By James Loeb ~
I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.
~By Serge Lang ~
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
~By Ben Bernanke ~
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
~By Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. ~
While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
~By Bill Owens ~
Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
~By Bill Frist ~
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
~By Ally Sheedy ~
Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
~By Burton Richter ~
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
~By Barbara Cook ~
In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability.
~By Brett Somers ~
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
~By Xun Zi ~
The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.
~By John Ashcroft ~
I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men.
~By Andie MacDowell ~
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
~By Bob Graham ~
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.
~By Jim Harrison ~
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.
~By Roy Romer ~
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
~By Les Brown ~
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people.
~By Thad Cochran ~
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.
~By Butch Otter ~
Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.
~By Franklin Knight Lane ~
Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.
~By Robert Musil ~
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
~By Lady Gaga ~
Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.
~By Barry Mann ~
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
~By Tacitus ~
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
~By Dean Koontz ~
I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.
~By Anne McCaffrey ~
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?
~By Chester W. Nimitz ~
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
~By George W. Bush ~
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
~By William Osler ~
As the world's sole remaining super power and economic powerhouses, our nation's ability to be at the forefront of innovation and production has enabled unparalleled economic success of our nation's workforce.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
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.
~By Harry Caray ~
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.
~By Steve Mann ~
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
~By George Weah ~
In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
~By Golda Meir ~
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
~By John Hancock ~
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
~By Charlton Heston ~
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
~By George Will ~
Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.
~By Mary Bono ~
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.
~By Gerry Adams ~
I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.
~By Pola Negri ~
The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
~By Jack Miller ~
At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp.
~By Paul Pierce ~
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
~By Charles Eames ~
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
~By Alphonso Jackson ~
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
~By Paul Getty ~
If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
~By Brett Hull ~
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.
~By Randy Harrison ~
It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
~By Bob Ney ~
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
~By Lew Wasserman ~
I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
~By Major Owens ~
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.
~By Edward James Olmos ~
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.
~By Kevin Mitnick ~
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
~By George Boole ~
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
I believe the anthropogenic effect for climate change is still only one of the hypotheses to explain the variability of climate.
~By Kanya Kusano ~
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
~By Ezra Pound ~
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.
~By Ronnie James Dio ~
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
~By Nathaniel Branden ~
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.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I try to keep in touch with the details... I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
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 ~
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 ~
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
~By Susan Sontag ~
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