Able Quotes

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

Technologies will come and go, so you need to be able to both ask and answer the question: What do you do as a company, why do you exist?

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work, I'm enjoying my running more and more.

A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

You had to be able to lift yourself outside of the time stream - and that essentially became what is called the yoga of time travel.

I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear from us, without resistance, our natural, undisputed rights.

Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.

I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.

The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English.

Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.

I'm always going to survive and always going to be able to make more music because I have a dedicated fan base.

I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

At the heart of anything good there should be a kernel of something undefinable, and if you can define it, or claim to be able to define it, then, in a sense, you’ve missed the point.

There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.

The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so Im able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.