Able Quotes

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

I happen to believe in immigration reform but I don't believe that that means that every person who has come into America should be able to stay.

I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.

We need to keep a constant watch over our mind and learn to distinguish between the beneficial and harmful thoughts that are arising moment by moment. Those who are able to do this are truly wise.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team.

Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store.

There's a plane flying over me and I'm looking forward to being able to relax and not worry about the weather or boat speed.

If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.

Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me

In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.