Ability

Famous quotes containing the word ability:

“The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.”
—Robert Harling, U.S. writer, and Herbert Ross. Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis)

“One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action—the ability to pass directly from thought to action.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery....Child’s play is the infantile form of the human ability to deal with experience by creating model situations and to master reality by experiment and planning.”
—Erik H. Erikson (20th century)