Able Quotes

You have to be able to play through the tough moments by doing something offensively, and we haven't been able to do that.

As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.

…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

I'm excited about the opportunities with mobile phones and being able to receive information on the go and relevant to what I'm doing at that moment in time.

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

I was labeled as a tricky player early on and have been regarded as tricky throughout my whole career. It was said that I was able to pull out tricks from nowhere.

Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

Trouble shots are surprisingly easy if you activate your imagination. You simply must be able to imagine exactly what flight the ball will take before you can play any shot well.

I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

[On lions:] It has always seemed miraculous to me that these colossal animals can move noiselessly through the bush, and are thus able to surround one without warning.

Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.