Ability - Quotes
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution. Many animals react instinctively with terror and flight at the approach of a predator. It is a healthy reaction, one that allows them to escape from danger. But it`s a terror that lasts an instant, not something that remains with them constantly. Natural selection has produced these big apes with hypertrophic frontal lobes, with an exaggerated ability to predict the future. It`s a prerogative that`s certainly useful but one that has placed before us a vision of our inevitable death, and this triggers the instinct of terror and flight. Basically, I believe that the fear of death is the result of an accidental and clumsy interference between two distinct evolutionary pressures - the product of bad automatic connections in our brain rather than something that has any use or meaning.
The ability to understand something before it`s observed is at the heart of scientific thinking.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Ability is what you`re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
I've learned that empowered thinking is a choice - a state of mind. It's the ability to enjoy a rose with no mind of the thorn. It's the ability to celebrate a life even though it has passed. It's seeing the flowers even during a rainstorm.
Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.
Happiness is not the absence of problems; it`s the ability to deal with them.
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person`s point of view and see things from that person`s angle as well as from your own.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.