Idea Book
Ability

There are many rare Abilities in the World, which Fortune never brings to Light  Thomas Fuller

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators  Edward Gibbon

I like people who can do things  Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can do anything better than anybody else, this old country is so constituted they want to see you get all you can out of it  Will Rogers

The acquisition of one sort of ability often makes that of another unlikely, if not impossible...To take the gifts one does have, to concentrate one's strength upon their development, to disallow distractions - none of these is an easy task  Joseph Epstein

He can fit his sails to every wind  John Clarke

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short  Nicholas of Cusa