Talants and Abilities

Ability: the art of getting credit for all the home runs that somebody else hits. ~ Casey Stengel

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Laurence J. Peter

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application. ~ Calvin Coolidge

If there is a way to do it better... find it. ~ Thomas Edison

God does not ask you ability or your inability. He asks only your availability. ~ Mary Kay Ash

Ability has nothing to do with opportunity. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

We are all more capable than we think we are.~ Anne Murray

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. ~ John Wooden

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is our duty to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Laurence J. Peter

The problem with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. ~ Walt West

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~ Edward Gibbon

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. ~ Andrew Carnegie

"He that has long legs travels fast." ~ Arab Proverb

No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you. ~ Homer J. Simpson

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ~ Stevie Wonder

No one knows what he can do till he tries. ~ Publilius Syrus

Ability is useless unless it's used. ~ Robert Half