Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. – Edward Abbey
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. – Francis Bacon
I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill – Arthur Balfour
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, thats good taste. – Lucille Ball
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 – Napoleon Bonaparte
No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development … That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination. – Colette Bowe
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. – Andrew Carnegie
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. – Agatha Christie
Ability without honor is useless. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. – Charles Caleb Colton
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. – Douglas Everett
When my horse is running good, I dont stop to give him sugar. – William Faulkner
Others have done it before me. I can, too. – Corporal John Faunce
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. – William Feather
