Able Quotations

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.

You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

I give thanks everyday that I've been able to take my craziness and make it work for me.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

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

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

I like being able to be a man.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.

We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold.

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

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

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

I seem to be able to get along with anybody when I work because I really enjoy being there.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.

But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.